Lawmakers Tap Budget Maneuvers to Make Infrastructure Plan Work
- $125 billion comes from re-purposing money from other bills
- Bill could take weeks to finalize as details are hashed out
This article is for subscribers only.
A bipartisan Senate group succeeded in finding $579 billion to pay for their infrastructure framework by relying on tried-and-true budget maneuvers that have yet to be scrutinized by Congress’s official scorekeepers.
The spending on roads, bridges, public transit and other items in the deal is offset by a hodgepodge of revenue-raising measures, economic-impact assumptions and projected savings from eliminating waste.