Good morning. Welcome to Axios Today. It's Wednesday, August 11th. I'm Nyla Boone. Here's

what we're watching today. New York suddenly gets its first female governor, plus the

year's best meteor shower. But first, bipartisan victory on infrastructure is today's one

big thing.

I was talking yesterday with Axios co-founder and frequent Axios today guest Mike Allen

about all the headlines from yesterday. And he said to me, this is a day when politics

consumes all of us in a way that it normally doesn't. So true, especially when you think

about the fact it's mid-August. There was some big news at the national and state level

that took all of our attention from the U.S. Senate passing a long-awaited infrastructure

bill to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo stepping down after allegations of sexual misconduct.

We're going to spend today talking about why these political stories matter, starting

with President Biden's big win on infrastructure. Managing editor for politics, Margaret

Taliv, politics editor Glenn Johnson, and our congressional reporter Elena Trin are all

here with me. Hello, good morning. Good morning. Morning, Nyla. Morning, Nyla. Can we start

first with the vote? What we heard yesterday was how many Republicans voted for this. Do

we see this as a win for bipartisanship? It's a massive win, especially in a Congress and

a Senate as divided as this one. I mean, 50 Democrats, 50 Republicans for them to come together

on this is a big deal. I mean, 19 Republicans voted for it, 50 Democrats. And then also,

I mean, it was really created in a bipartisan way. You had a group of 10 senators, five Republicans,

five Democrats, who are the ones who really did the heavy lifting and hashing out and writing

certain sections of this bill. And they were integral to this, as was the White House. And so it

really, I think, was a massive victory for President Biden, but also for both parties and

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