Biden makes progress on compromise effort to pass $2tn infrastructure bill

President has held one-on-one meetings with members of both parties - but will Republicans torpedo his proposals?

Joe Biden has vowed to make every effort to work with Republicans until progress is impossible. Right now, he and conservative lawmakers see an infrastructure bill as still within the realm of possibility.

If so, it would mark a significant step forwards for Biden in passing a large part of his legislative agenda aimed at sparking the recovery of the pandemic-hit US economy. Biden's team has consciously drawn comparisons to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's effort to lift America out of the Great Depression through government programs and big public works projects.