Commerce secretary says infrastructure deal is "what Americans want"

Washington — Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said Sunday that the bipartisan infrastructure deal still being negotiated in the Senate, as well as a larger measure that encompasses President Biden's major agenda items on child care, climate and education, is what Americans want and deserve. And she believes Congress will send both pieces of legislation to the president's desk.

In an interview on "Face the Nation," Raimondo said the group of senators working with White House aides on the $600 billion bipartisan infrastructure framework is "very close" to reaching an agreement, and said she believes talks are "in the final strokes or in the final days." But while the Senate group is hashing out the outstanding issues on the bipartisan blueprint, Congress is also working to craft a much larger $3.5 trillion package that includes Mr. Biden's agenda items that were left out of the smaller infrastructure deal, which focuses on roads, bridges, broadband and railways.