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Former President Donald Trump points to supporters after speaking at a Turning Point Action gathering, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Trump urges GOP to reject infrastructure deal: 'Don't let the radical left play you' for 'fools'

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2021. Pelosi discussed her reasons for rejecting two Republicans chosen by House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to be on the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Pelosi pledges to hold up infrastructure bill, as Portman says Senate is nearing a deal

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., left, talks to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during a news conference. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Not a 'rubber stamp': House Democrats threaten to wreck bipartisan infrastructure bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other GOP senators speak to reporters ahead of a test vote scheduled by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York on the bipartisan infrastructure deal senators brokered with President Joe Biden, in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Republicans are prepared to block the vote over what they see as a rushed and misguided process. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden's infrastructure bill blocked by Senate filibuster

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., flanked by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., holds a news conference to talk about the benefits of the Child Tax Credit, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2021. The U.S. government is starting to deposit child tax credit money into the accounts of more than 35 million families as part of coronavirus relief. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Chuck Schumer dares Republicans to vote against $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 10, 2021. Portman is working with a bipartisan group of 10 senators negotiating an infrastructure deal with President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Plan to beef up IRS dropped from infrastructure bill talks

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Senate Rules Committee Chair Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., presides over a markup of the "For the People Act," which would expand access to voting and other voting reforms, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. The bill was already passed by Democrats in the House. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Klobuchar: Dems could do 'election infrastructure' as part of reconciliation

By Christina A. Cassidy - Associated Press
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., flanked by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., holds a news conference to talk about the benefits of the Child Tax Credit, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2021. The U.S. government is starting to deposit child tax credit money into the accounts of more than 35 million families as part of coronavirus relief. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer pressures Dems to wrap up infrastructure, reconciliation before August recess

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., walks to meet with Democratic members of the Texas legislature to discuss voting rights after they left Austin trying to kill a Republican bill that would make it harder to vote in Texas, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Manchin in the middle: Pressure mounts in West Virginia to oppose $3.5 trillion spending package

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks with members of the media after leaving a meeting with fellow Democrats at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, to discuss the latest progress on his infrastructure agenda. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden lobbies Democrats to unite behind $3.5 trillion 'human infrastructure' package

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., does a cable news interview before the start of a two-week recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Earlier, President Joe Biden announced a bipartisan agreement on a pared-down infrastructure plan that would make a start on his top legislative priority and validate his efforts to reach across the political aisle. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

McConnell urges Biden to rebuke Dems for holding infrastructure 'hostage'

By Haris Alic and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks with reporters as he walks at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 24, 2021. A bipartisan group of lawmakers have negotiated a plan to pay for an estimated $1 trillion compromise plan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Manchin pitches repeal of Trump tax cuts, $1.5T in social spending to secure infrastructure deal

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds a hearing with Ranking Member Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., right, on infrastructure needs of the U.S. energy sector, western water and public lands, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Manchin and other Senate infrastructure negotiators are meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House later today. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Barrasso: Republicans more hesitant on infrastructure deal despite Biden's walkback of veto threat

By Dave Boyer and Haris Alic - The Washington Times
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California departs after speaking during a media availability at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 24, 2021. Pelosi announced on Thursday that she's creating a special committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, saying it is "imperative that we seek the truth." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pelosi: No infrastructure deal unless Senate passes bill of liberal priorities

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
A worker stands on scaffolding attached to the Deception Pass Bridge, a 976-foot span about 180-feet above the waters below, as work to replace corroded steel and paint the structure continues Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Deception Pass, Wash. The 86-year old bridge, along with its 511-foot long companion Canoe Pass Bridge, spanning immediately to the north, connect Whidbey Island on the south to Fidalgo Island. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) ** FILE **

Biden, bipartisan lawmakers strike deal on $1 trillion infrastructure package

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
A collapsed pedestrian bridge over Kenilworth Avenue (DC-295) in Northeast D.C. is shown in this D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services photograph. (DC FEMS) [https://twitter.com/dcfireems/status/1407742978907676678]

D.C. bridge collapse injures 5, causes highway shutdown

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times
White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Psaki says Biden to press lawmakers on infrastructure deal, but time is running short

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
A Waymo minivan moves along a city street as an empty driver's seat and a moving steering wheel drive passengers during an autonomous vehicle ride, Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in Chandler, Ariz. Waymo, a unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., is one of several companies testing driverless vehicles in the U.S. But it's the first offering lifts to the public with no humans at the wheel who can take over in sticky situations. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Trial lawyers, unions seen hobbling U.S. in race to beat China on driverless cars

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times
In this Feb.14, 2019, file photo, an Airbus A380, left, and a Boeing 747, both from Lufthansa airline pass each other at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. The United States and the European Union on Tuesday appeared close to clinching a deal to end a damaging dispute over subsidies to Airbus and Boeing and lift billions of dollars in punitive tariffs. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

EU, U.S. reach deal to end Airbus-Boeing trade dispute

By Lorne Cook and Aamer Madhani - Associated Press
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., leaves the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Bipartisan lawmakers reach 'tentative' infrastructure deal

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, attends a Senate Budget Committee hearing to discuss President Joe Biden's budget request for FY 2022 on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

'Why give them a win?': New infrastructure talks spur GOP fears of a Biden double-cross

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 vaccination program, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden abandons infrastructure talks after Senate GOP refuses to back tax hikes

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
This Nov. 5, 2020, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

United Airlines employee challenges union dues at Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
In this photo taken Thursday, May 27, 2021, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., the GOP's lead negotiator on a counteroffer to President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan, speaks at a news conference as she is joined by, from left, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

GOP ready to reject Biden counteroffer of 15% minimum corporate tax to pay for infrastructure

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, June 3, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Minimum corporate tax should be 'completely acceptable' to Republicans, says White House

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., the GOP's lead negotiator on a counteroffer to President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan, walks with reporters as senators go to the chamber for votes ahead of the approaching Memorial Day recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 27, 2021. Senate Republicans are ready to deploy the filibuster to block a commission on the Jan. 6 insurrection, shattering chances for a bipartisan probe of the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol and reviving pressure to do away with the procedural tactic that critics say has lost its purpose. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden, GOP senator have 'constructive' talk on infrastructure, White House says

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
President Biden wants 500,000 charging stations installed across the country to fuel electric cars that are “made in America,” but the lack of domestically produced rare earth minerals required for such an endeavor would make the U.S. heavily reliant on China. (Associated Press)

Roadwork ahead: Biden's electric vehicle future heading for huge potholes

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks during a press conference at the Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. office space in downtown Atlanta, Friday, May 21, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Pete Buttigieg: Joe Biden's budget is bold and responsible

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times
In this March 16, 2021 photo, a gas pump displays gas and diesel prices in Richmond, Va. Gasoline prices are at a seven-year high, Thursday, May 27, ahead of one of America’s busiest holiday travel weekends. But experts don’t expect steep prices to keep eager motorists off the road. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

High gasoline prices unlikely to deter holiday travelers

By Cathy Bussewitz - Associated Press
Workers stand on wire mesh below the decking of the Deception Pass Bridge, nearly 1,000-feet long and about 180-feet above the waters below, as work to replace corroded steel and paint the structure continues Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Deception Pass, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) ** FILE **

Senate GOP proposes $928 billion infrastructure package as White House talks stall

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

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Download the Special Report available in the March 22, 2018, edition of The Washington Times. (4.2 MB)

Infrastructure 2018: Moving America Forward — Land, Water and Air: Download the Special Report available in the March 22, 2018, edition of The Washington Times. (4.2 MB)

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