Biden signs bill averting shutdown as heated infrastructure debate drags on – as it happened

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House speaker Nancy Pelosi left her press conference by urging reporters to think positively" about the negotiations over the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation package.

And yet, as Pelosi was making her comments, House majority leader Steny Hoyer said he was not confident that the infrastructure bill would pass today, as Democratic leadership had previously hoped.