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Biden informed Democrats that a separate infrastructure bill would need to wait until the social welfare and tax package was complete.
October 5 -
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is giving lawmakers until Halloween to strike a deal.
October 4 -
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.
September 14 -
The Ways and Means Committee voted to approve 12 weeks of paid family leave and a mandate to enroll employees in retirement accounts.
September 10 -
Moderate and progressive Democrats are on a collision course over how to pay for the administration's economic agenda.
August 27 -
The resolution came after a White House pressure campaign and assurances from Speaker Pelosi helped unite fractious Democrats.
August 24 -
The House Speaker and a group of centrist Democrats will resume talks after hours of negotiations failed to break a stalemate late Monday.
August 24 -
The speaker of the House had floated a potential compromise, but it was rebuffed.
August 16 -
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.
August 4 -
Democrats are also uniting behind a plan to muscle through a broader budget resolution to carry the party’s priorities.
July 29