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Crumbling US infrastructure moved closer to a major overhaul at the weekend after the Senate held a rare Saturday session to work on a massive infrastructure bill.

The move followed Friday’s 66:28 vote in favour of taking up the proposed legislation, which aims to add $550bn of new funding to $450bn previously approved.

Details of the legislation have not been released so far, and all previous votes on the issue were on a shell bill to which the final text will be ...