Senate negotiators move to finalize details of bipartisan infrastructure deal

Washington — Democratic senators and White House officials negotiating the bipartisan infrastructure deal put forth a "global offer" to their Republican colleagues Sunday addressing all remaining issues, according to a Democratic source close to the talks, as members continue working toward an agreement on the nearly $600 billion plan.

The group of senators involved in the talks are still negotiating several disputed items, including money for highways and bridges, water infrastructure, transit, broadband and using unspent COVID-19 pandemic relief money to pay for the infrastructure measure, according to the Democratic source. Also outstanding is a requirement that contractors and subcontractors working on federally funded contracts pay their workers no less than the "locally prevailing wages" for work on similar projects, the source said. Senate negotiators suggested last week that Monday would be the day in which a deal on the details of the bipartisan infrastructure framework would be reached after GOP senators blocked an effort in the upper chamber to advance the plan.