Joe Biden

Biden informed Democrats that a separate infrastructure bill would need to wait until the social welfare and tax package was complete.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is giving lawmakers until Halloween to strike a deal.

President Joe Biden’s push to ramp up taxes on the wealthy is getting diluted by his Democratic allies in Congress, undermining his chances of fully delivering on his 2020 campaign pledge to curb America’s widening inequality.

The Ways and Means Committee voted to approve 12 weeks of paid family leave and a mandate to enroll employees in retirement accounts.

Moderate and progressive Democrats are on a collision course over how to pay for the administration's economic agenda.

The resolution came after a White House pressure campaign and assurances from Speaker Pelosi helped unite fractious Democrats.

The House Speaker and a group of centrist Democrats will resume talks after hours of negotiations failed to break a stalemate late Monday.

The speaker of the House had floated a potential compromise, but it was rebuffed.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are asking a federal judge to block the release of his tax returns to Congress, saying Democrats’ pursuit of the documents amounts to political retaliation.

Democrats are also uniting behind a plan to muscle through a broader budget resolution to carry the party’s priorities.

The agreement marks a significant breakthrough in the drive to muscle through Congress a massive infusion of new spending for roads, bridges and other critical projects.

The negotiations have blown past several deadlines despite persistent expressions of optimism from lawmakers in both parties that they were close to an agreement.

Finishing a bipartisan plan is pivotal to getting all Democrats on board with a budget outline setting up a $3.5 trillion package.

So far, the Speaker of the House has been relegated to the sidelines in the stalled Senate debate over a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint.

The Senate Majority Leader will take a preliminary step Monday that would lead to a first test vote on the infrastructure plan by Wednesday. He set the same day as a deadline for all Senate Democrats to unite behind a budget blueprint.

The increased funding for the IRS as a way to boost tax revenue was dropped after it emerged that Democrats intend to include the measure in their bigger budget bill.

President Joe Biden urged Senate Democrats to act boldly on his sweeping social and economic agenda Wednesday, as they began hashing out details of an $3.5 trillion tax and spending agreement that marks a crucial step forward for his plan.

Senate Democrats on the Budget Committee agreed to set a $3.5 trillion top-line spending level for a bill to carry most of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda into law without Republican support, bridging divisions — for now — among some party factions.

Lawmakers remain divided on the size and scope of the fast-track budget reconciliation bill intended to include a raft of social spending and tax increases.

The administration is aiming at trusts — particularly dynasty trusts, vehicles that wealthy families can use to benefit multiple generations of descendants.