Opinion · 117th Congress
With Democrats in the doldrums, just how much is Biden to blame?
</p> Inflation is a trickier issue.
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</p> Inflation is a trickier issue.
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</p> Biden also weighed in with a number of specific objections to the House-passed bill.
</p> The White House has estimated the bill would more than pay for itself, producing a modest $36 billion surplus over 10 years. But some independent watchdogs have disagreed.
</p> That decision, if blessed by House Democrats and the Biden administration, would decouple a complicated omnibus spending bill covering every federal agency from thorny negotiations over budget reconciliation
</p> But still more changes are likely if the expansive bill, a top priority for President Joe Biden, is to become law.
</p> Defying Trump Trump has called for primary challenges to a slew of GOP lawmakers who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
</p> That includes a greenhouse gas reduction fund in the bill to support rapid deployment of low and zero-emission technology, the methane emissions reduction program and technology grants through the
</p> Leahy has always had the upper hand when it comes to access.
</p> That’s because a delay in implementing the first-time mandates makes for beneficial math within the decade-long budget window used to calculate the cost of the filibuster-proof reconciliation bill
</p> “When I heard about this, what they were putting in the bill, I went right to the sponsor (Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.) and I said, ‘This is wrong. This can’t happen.
</p> The think tank — a joint project of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution — said Thursday that tax cuts would be widespread in the first year under the bill, but taxes would on average rise
Under the current stopgap spending bill, for instance, the Pentagon is receiving the fiscal 2021 level of spending for overseas military operations — $69 billion, including $3.3 billion for Afghan security
</p> It’s one thing to pass a bill, say analysts. It’s another to make the bill’s impact tangible to Americans.
, as opposed to a less generous approach contained in the Senate’s companion bill.
</p> By Kate Ackley, Bridget Bowman and Stephanie Akin</p> The bipartisan infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden is expected to sign Monday gives Democrats something to tout, with a year to go
</p> But the bill is expected to undergo potentially major changes in the Senate, where it’s still unclear what Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., will demand to vote for the package. </p> Sen.
</p> [House sends infrastructure bill to Biden without budget vote]</p> Distressed communities across the country are clamoring for federal money to help upgrade aging systems.
Then two minutes go by and they’re talking about a pipeline, you know, or a bill or a package,” he continued.
</p> But turnout wasn’t the only theory making the rounds this week.