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Democrats aim for last-minute House votes amid final budget concerns over Biden agenda

By Lisa Mascaro, Alan Fram, and others

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y

House Democrats say paid family and medical leave are back in Biden’s $1.75 trillion agenda

By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event for Terry McAuliffe, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Virginia, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. McAuliffe, a former Virginia governor is locked in a dead heat with Glenn Youngkin, a former co-chief executive officer ofCarlyle Group Inc., ahead of next week’s election. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Biden’s big spending bill is racing to the finish line at $1.75 trillion—half its original size

By Lisa Mascaro, Aamer Madhani, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 21: Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., departs after a meeting with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and White House officials on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Manchin said to support wealth tax to fund Biden’s big spending package

By Lisa Mascaro, Hope Yen, and others

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks to the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol September 27, 2021 in Washington, DC.

Republicans block bill to keep government going

By Lisa Mascaro, Zeke Miller, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 24: U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during an event on Building Back Better for Women at the East Front Steps of the U.S. Capitol September 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. House Democrats held a news conference on the “Women’s Health Protection Act” (WHPA) that will be voted on in the House after the news conference. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Biden agenda faces make-or-break week as divided Democrats fight over price tag

By Hope Yen, Lisa Mascaro, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 22: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) leaves the U.S. Capitol to meet with President Biden on September 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Senate Republicans said they will not vote to pass the continuing resolution that was recently voted on by the House of Representatives, which would fund the government for the new fiscal year and includes an increase to the debt ceiling. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

‘Just work on it, give me a number’: Biden wades into Democrat infighting as spending bills go down to the wire

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

President Joe Biden attends a virtual COVID-19 summit during the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden meets with divided Democrats over $3.5 trillion budget plan

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AUGUST 31: People gather at the New York City office of Gov. Kathy Hochul calling for a stop to evictions on August 31, 2021 in New York City. Housing activists and community members gathered and marched towards the NYC office of Gov. Hochul calling on her, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins to amend and extend the evictions moratorium, which expires tonight. Rent Stabilization Association, New York’s largest landlord group, has threatened to sue the state legislature if lawmakers extend the pandemic-era eviction moratorium. On August 12th, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against parts of New York’s eviction moratorium that allows renters to submit a hardship declaration form stating a loss of income due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic or that moving would harm their health. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

2 major pillars of America’s COVID safety net no longer exist

By Ashraf Khalil, Lisa Mascaro, and others

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., arrives as the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package is expected to be voted on by the Senate this morning on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Senate approves $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill

By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Seventy percent of U.S. adults have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, a key milestone in the fight against the pandemic that the country hit nearly a month later than Biden had hoped.

Biden administration issues new eviction ban for most of U.S.

By Josh Boak, Lisa Mascaro, and others

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., left, and House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., go over their notes at the House Rules Committee as they prepare an emergency extension of the eviction moratorium, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, July 30, 2021. President Joe Biden called on “Congress to extend the eviction moratorium to protect such vulnerable renters and their families without delay.” (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress scrambles to extend the eviction moratorium before it expires Saturday

By Lisa Mascaro, Michael Casey, and others

Senator Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio, left, and Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona, speak during a news conference in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. A bipartisan group of senators and the White House reached a tentative agreement on a $550 billion infrastructure package, a significant breakthrough in the drive to muscle through Congress a massive infusion of spending for roads, bridges and other critical projects. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The U.S. Senate votes to begin work on a $1 trillion infrastructure plan in rare show of bipartisanship

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, sits next to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during a meeting with Senate Democrats on the Budget Committee, Wednesday, June 16, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Democrats are eyeing a $6 trillion infrastructure plan that focuses on Medicare, immigration reform

By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press

Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, listens during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. President Joe Biden and his top advisers have derided the Trump administration’s playbook for distributing coronavirus vaccines, but so far have made only modest changes to the plan that’s meeting their target pace of more than one million shots a day. Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

With Memorial Day deadline looming, GOP counters with $1 trillion infrastructure proposal

By Lisa Mascaro, Jonathan Lemire, and others