The infrastructure bill is being lauded as a victory for bipartisanship – but is it?

The truth of how the bill - which is not yet finished - has come to be is a little more self-interest than national interest

The Biden administration's infrastructure proposal is still making its way through the congressional sausage making process but it has already been lauded as a rare victory for bipartisanship in a divided America.

Pledging to unify America after his 2020 election win, Biden and his top supporters see the roughly $1tn package not just as a chance to repair America's tattered and torn infrastructure but also as a model for reaching across the US's political divide and getting things done.