China News Agency, Washington, July 28 (Reporter Sha Hanting) The US Senate held a procedural vote on the evening of the 28th local time on the $1 trillion infrastructure construction bill, and the vote was passed.

　　In the voting that night, 67 votes in favor and 32 votes against, the procedural vote was passed.

Among them, all 50 Democratic congressmen voted in favor, and another 17 Republican congressmen voted in favor.

According to regulations, after the procedural vote is passed, the Senate will begin formal discussions and vote on the $1 trillion infrastructure construction bill, and it will eventually require 60 votes to pass.

　　Before the vote, 21 senators from the two parties jointly issued a statement saying that the two parties have reached a preliminary agreement on the infrastructure bill, which will bring many jobs and will not increase taxes.

　　U.S. President Biden issued a statement on the same day, saying that the two parties reached an agreement as a sign that the United States "can do great things."

He called the infrastructure plan "the most important long-term investment" in the United States in nearly a century.

　　According to US media reports, the $1 trillion infrastructure bill includes $550 billion in new additional expenditures, of which $110 billion will be used to build highways, $66 billion will be used to build railways, and $65 billion will be used to build broadband-related facilities. 40 billion U.S. dollars is used to repair bridges and so on.

　　The two parties in the Senate have been negotiating on the infrastructure bill for more than one month, and many of them have been deadlocked. The two parties have differences on specific projects and how to raise funds.

At present, both parties have basically agreed to use the remaining funds in the economic stimulus plan to deal with the epidemic to pay for this expenditure.

　　Since Biden took office as president, the infrastructure construction plan has been his “signature project”, including improving transportation infrastructure, revitalizing the manufacturing industry, and expanding medical care, totaling more than 4 trillion US dollars.

The $1 trillion bill that the two parties initially agreed on this time is only the first step in Biden's infrastructure plan.

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