Headline Roundup • August 23rd, 2021
House Democrats Return to Advance $3.5T Budget Plan
Summary from the AllSides News Team
U.S. House Democrats are returning to Washington D.C. Monday to advance President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion budget plan. Democratic House leadership plans to approve a "rule" on Monday to set up a vote on Tuesday.
Democrats in the House are currently working to string together votes from nine moderate Democrats who want the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill recently passed by the Senate to pass the House before taking up the budget package. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) can lose only three of the Senate's 50 Democratic votes before the $3.5 trillion bill is defeated.
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Democrats face a test of unity in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday as they begin work on two ambitious spending plans that would devote trillions of dollars to transportation infrastructure and social programs.
While centrist Democrats are eager to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that has already won approval in the Senate, liberals say they must prioritize a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint that would expand spending on childcare and education. Both measures are priorities for Democratic President Joe Biden.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is determined to launch...
The House makes an early return from its August recess Monday as Democratic leaders seek to string together the votes to advance President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion economic package, a centerpiece of his agenda.
But progressives and moderates are clashing over strategy, and the party doesn't have agreement on how to move forward yet.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan to move the bill in tandem with the Senate-passed infrastructure legislation is threatened by a rebellion by moderate Democrats, who have insisted that the $550 billion infrastructure bill get a speedy vote and be signed into...
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The chaos in Afghanistan may have changed global headlines, but it has done little to shake Democrats from their course at home. House members return to Capitol Hill on Monday to begin advancing the partyâs $3.5 trillion makeover of the American social safety net.
Debates about welcoming tens of thousands of Afghan migrants did nothing to derail Democratsâ hopes of approving an amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants already in the U.S. as part of that makeover. Questions about the U.S. retreat have not dimmed party leadersâ plans this fall to erase one of...
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