Republicans Block Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill - The Atlantic

…As much as Biden would love Republican votes for the infrastructure plan, he wants the roads and bridges even more. If the GOP senators won't seal the deal they struck or dawdle too long in finishing it, Democrats are already planning to take the bipartisan infrastructure framework and add it to their own $3.5 trillion measure. That's the leverage Schumer is using by forcing an early vote on the bipartisan proposal; Democrats don't want to repeat the mistake they made in President Barack Obama's first year in office, when they allowed Republicans to drag out negotiations over a health-care bill for months and squandered the new president's political capital…

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/07/biden-infrastructure-republicans/619520/