Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan Gains Support, Boosting Odds

Democratic senators in group meet with White House officials
Funding details such as indexing gas tax are still in flux

The U.S Capitol building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. A group of Democratic and Republican U.S. House members who are trying to keep alive the hope of a bipartisan infrastructure package said late Tuesday they had agreed to $761.8 billion in new spending over eight years.Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg

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By Erik Wasson and Laura Litvan

June 16, 2021 at 7:50 PM UTC

Updated on

June 17, 2021 at 4:59 PM UTC

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Prospects for a bipartisan deal on the biggest infrastructure package in decades improved on Wednesday as 21 senators, including 11 Republicans, signed onto a bipartisan framework for a $579 billion package.

Such legislation would still need support from nearly all 50 Democrats in the chamber unless more Republicans sign on, and it includes a funding mechanism -- indexing the national gasoline tax to inflation -- that the White House has opposed.