What Does the Spending Bill Look Like Now?
Disagreements and ideological divides in the Democratic party have held up the finalization of a massive social spending bill. After multiple rounds of cuts and revisions, Dems are getting closer to a deal, but the bill looks much different than before.
Environmental groups are still taking in the news that, because of opposition from Manchin, the spending bill is unlikely to include one of the central elements of Biden’s plan to tackle climate change.
Democrats are scrambling intensely behind-the-scenes to address immigration in the framework they are crafting to expand the nation’s social safety net, according to people with knowledge of the situation…
Paid family leave, one of the hallmarks of President Joe Biden’s social safety net agenda, is in jeopardy of being pared once again or even cut from a major spending bill over a lack of support from Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.