After more legislative drama than found in a West Wing rerun, the House passed the infrastructure bill, which now goes to President Biden's desk for an expected signature.

The biggest story is not what it is, but what it isn't. The original proposal was $2.6 trillion, according to a New York Times breakdown from August. The plan had included many items that wouldn't make the cut: housing, schools, home- and community-based care, R&D and manufacturing, and more.

What passed was $1.2 trillion in spending. But it wasn't all new, as $650 billion was extending previous spending. New spending of roughly $550 billion, mostly over five years, breaks out as follows, according to CNN.

• Roads, bridges, and major infrastructure: $110 billion
• Public transit: $39 billion
• Railways: $66 billion
• Power grid: $65 billion
• Electric vehicles, buses, and charging stations: $15 billion
• Airports and seaports: $42 billion
• Resilience and climate change: $50 billion
• Water infrastructure: $50 billion
• Broadband: $65 billion
• Environmental spending: $21 billion
• Transportation safety: $11 billion
• Reconnect communities: $1 billion

Bloomberg News points to a number of funding sources for the bill, including unspent pandemic relief funds, assumptions of greater economic growth leading to increased tax revenue, states that ended unemployment benefits early and in doing so reduced the need for that federal money, spectrum auction sales, and more. There is disagreement over how much the measure will add to the deficit. The Congressional Budget Office expects the measure to add $256 billion over a decade.