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Ukraine aid growing as lawmakers shape big budget bill

March 7, 2022 at 5:36 p.m.

Proposed U.S. aid for Ukraine and its European allies has grown beyond $12 billion, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday, as congressional bargainers worked toward a bipartisan government-wide spending...

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Dems, GOP set inflation, COVID mandates as election themes

February 19, 2022 at 8:25 p.m.

Democrats and Republicans each want to flash election-year signals that they are riding to the rescue of families struggling with聽rising costs聽and the 2-year-old coronavirus pandemic.

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Biden signs stopgap spending bill averting government shutdown

February 18, 2022 at 2:21 p.m.

President Joe Biden on Friday signed a bipartisan bill to extend government funding for three weeks to give Congress more time to reach an overdue deal financing federal agencies through...

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., walks to a caucus lunch at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 17, 2021. Manchin said Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021 he cannot back a $2 trillion social safety net bill, dealing a potentially fatal blow to President Joe Biden’s signature legislation.

Democrats try to ‘build back’ after Manchin tanks $2T bill

December 20, 2021 at 5:24 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are struggling to pick up the pieces after Sen. Joe Manchin effectively crushed President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill. But they face serious questions whether...

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Time is no ally as Dems strain to finish Biden’s $2T bill

December 3, 2021 at 9:26 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- If President Joe Biden's $2 trillion social and environment package was a Broadway show, its seven months on Congress' stage could qualify it as a hit. But lawmaking...

Beyond Manchin: Dems’ $2T bill faces Senate gauntlet

November 25, 2021 at 8:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON 鈥� It took half a year but Democrats have driven President Joe Biden鈥檚 $2 trillion package of social and climate initiatives through the House. It gets no easier in...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters about plans to pass President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda as the House meets to debate the Build Back Better Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Dems鈥� sweeping social, climate bill passes divided House

November 19, 2021 at 9:00 a.m.

Democrats brushed aside months-long divisions and pushed their expansive social and environment bill through a sharply divided House on Friday, as President Joe Biden and his party moved closer to...

House moves toward OK of Dems’ sweeping social, climate bill

November 18, 2021 at 7:19 p.m.

A divided House moved toward passage Thursday of聽Democrats' expansive social and environment bill聽as new cost estimates from Congress' top fiscal analyst suggested that moderate lawmakers' spending and deficit worries would...

Democrats end deadlock, House sends Joe Biden infrastructure bill

November 5, 2021 at 10:02 p.m.

The House approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects late Friday after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates, notching a victory that President...

Biden’s big bill on brink of House votes, but fighting drags

November 4, 2021 at 8:33 p.m.

Democrats in the House appear on the verge of securing President Joe Biden鈥檚 now-$1.85 trillion-and-growing聽domestic policy package聽alongside a companion $1 trillion infrastructure bill in what would be a dramatic political...

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