Live Updates: Biden to sign infrastructure bill as focus turns to social spending package
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Washington — President Biden is set to sign the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law on Monday, joined by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to mark the culmination of months of negotiations to revitalize the nation's roads, bridges, waterways and physical infrastructure.
Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said it would release a final estimate on the cost of the Mr. Biden's second signature piece of legislation, the Build Back Better Act, by Friday.
The White House said lawmakers, governors, mayors, and business and union leaders would be attending the signing ceremony, scheduled for 3 p.m. on the South Lawn of the White House. A spokesperson for Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, one of the moderate Democratic negotiators of both bills, said she will be in attendance. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said last week he will not be attending.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.