Infrastructure talks are getting real — but time may be running out.

President Joe Biden's infrastructure negotiating team spent the day on the Hill on Tuesday in three separate meetings with a bipartisan group of 10 senators led by Kyrsten Sinema and Rob Portman.

Forgive us if it seems like Groundhog Day around here, but how to pay for $579 billion in new spending is still the big problem.

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