President Joe Biden is set to meet with a bipartisan group of senators on Thursday at the White House to seek support for major spending to modernize an aging U.S. infrastructure after his predecessor Donald Trump failed to tackle the matter. The White House said Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the lawmakers to discuss what it called “the critical need” to invest in infrastructure, with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joining the session remotely. Biden has pledged to ask Congress this month for what he has referred to as “historic investments in infrastructure and manufacturing, ... (full story)