Senate finalises trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure deal. Here’s what happens next

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Democrats believe that enough Republicans will support the bill’s final passage to avoid a filibuster, a prospect that appeared likely as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted to proceed on the legislation last week. The legislation will now face attempts at amendments in the Senate ahead of a vote on its final passage, but the true hurdle remains ahead in House, where numerous Democrats including both progressives and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have vowed to not take up the package for a vote or support its passage unless a separate, $3.5 trillion package dealing with social programmes, healthcare and other issues is passed via the reconciliation process and makes its way to the House. That reconciliation bill itself is in jeopardy thanks to comments in recent days from Sen Kyrsten Sinema, an Arizona Democrat and centrist who said that she did not support the $3.5 trillion price tag; Democrats need her vote, as well as the vote of another swing-vote centrist, Sen Joe Manchin, to see the bill pass.