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The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has set a new deadline for the House to pass a major infrastructure spending bill after a week of negotiations left Joe Biden’s social and environmental policy overhaul plan in a limbo. In a letter to House Democrats on Saturday, Pelosi said that the House…

President Joe Biden told House Democrats on Friday to hold off on his bipartisan infrastructure bill until they reach agreement on a scaled-back partisan tax and spending package funding the rest of his economic agenda. The president’s visit to the Capitol resolved a weeks-long dispute between centrist Democrats who wanted…

Biden’s domestic agenda at stakeCQ Budget, Ep. 216Read More

Published: 12:40pm, 1 Oct, 2021 Updated: 1:20pm, 1 Oct, 2021 Read More

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. Schumer is preparing for a morning vote to temporarily fund the government while President Joe Biden appears unable to strike swift agreement with two wavering Democrats, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema,…

Congress is careening toward a series of manufactured crises this week: a looming government shutdown that will likely be averted close to the last moment and an intraparty spat among Democrats over whether to vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill without first approving massive legislation containing a host of President…

WASHINGTON (AP) — His government overhaul plans at stake, President Joe Biden appeared unable to swiftly strike agreement with two wavering Democratic senators trying to trim back his potentially historic $3.5 trillion measure that will collapse without their support. With Republicans solidly opposed and no Democratic votes to spare, Biden…

Senators have spent hours on the custard-colored couches of Joe Biden’s Oval Office over the past several days. Dozens of chocolate chip cookies have been passed out. Irish poetry has been quoted. In one White House meeting on Sept. 22, a small group of progressive lawmakers perched on cushions where…

President Joe Biden canceled his trip to Chicago this week to stay in Washington to haggle with lawmakers over the administration's two large legislative priorities, a White House official said Tuesday. "In meetings and calls over the weekend and through today, President Biden has been engaging with members of Congress…

New polling results released Tuesday by Quinnipiac University showed a 23-point divide between voter approval of how the developing situation at the U.S.-Mexico border is being handled by Governor Greg Abbott and President Joe Biden. While one in five voters said they approved of Biden's handling of the border, 43…