WASHINGTON, 07 November 2021, (TON): Lawmakers were set to take key votes on giant twin bills at the center of Joe Biden’s $3 trillion blueprint to transform America’s crumbling transport network and expand the welfare safety net on the biggest day so far of his presidency.

Success on both fronts would be a huge boon to Biden, 10 months after he swept to the White House on the rallying cry of “build back better” before seeing his popularity plunge. His low approval ratings were blamed in part for a humiliating upset defeat this week in Virginia’s gubernatorial election.

The House of Representatives was expected to pass a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package for Biden to sign into law after taking a procedural vote to advance a social welfare bill, worth up to $1.85 trillion, to the Senate. 

Biden spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters amid a flurry of 11th-hour negotiations in Congress “Poll after poll shows us that the components of the bipartisan infrastructure deal and the Build Back Better framework are very popular.”

“American families want historic investments in infrastructure... in competitiveness, and addressing the climate crisis. This is something that they want to see happen.”

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