WASHINGTON, Sept.26 (Reuters) – The bipartisan bill to invest more than $ 1 trillion in infrastructure upgrades in the United States will be passed by the House of Representatives this week, President Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday. .
“Let me tell you that we are going to pass the law this week. I never put to the vote a law which does not have the necessary votes (to be adopted)”, declared the democratic leader on the ABC channel.
The bipartisan text has already been adopted by the Snat in August with the support of many well-known republicans.
Nancy Pelosi also expressed confidence in being able to build a consensus within the Democratic Party on the gigantic plan of 3.500 billion dollars of investment in education, health, the labor market or the climate, wanted by the president. Joe Biden to reduce social inequalities.
Adopted by only one vote (50 against 49) by the Snat in August, the project created divisions between the left wing of the Democratic Party and the centrists, complicating the adoption of the text in the House of Representatives where the Democrats have yet with a clearer majority. (Humeyra Pamuk, French version Tangi Salan)
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