The House is pressing ahead with a partisan infrastructure bill at the same time there is uncertainty about the future of a freshly minted, $1.2 trillion agreement between President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators.
 
The House will take up a $547 billion surface transportation bill this week, but much of lawmakers’ attention in coming days will be on the fate of the bipartisan infrastructure deal announced on Thursday.
 
Biden threw the deal's future in immediate doubt when he said Thursday he wouldn’t sign the resulting legislation unless Congress also sends him another massive reconciliation measure that would address Democratic priorities, including new domestic spending.
 
It would take at least 10 GOP senators to pass the infrastructure package, and at least one of those, Kansas Republican Jerry Moran, now wants assurances from Democratic swing votes, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, that they won’t support a separate reconciliation bill, a Moran aide told Agri-Pulse.
 
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