Biden’s Expansive Economic Agenda Set for Senate Endorsement
- Senate poised to pass infrastructure bill, budget framework
- Democratic factions have competing demands for legislation
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President Joe Biden’s big plans for the U.S. economy are on the verge of passing their first major legislative tests in the Senate, leaving their future to intra-party struggles between Democratic progressives and moderates.
A broad group of Democratic and Republican senators is prepared to place a bipartisan stamp of approval on a cornerstone of the Biden agenda -- a $550 billion infrastructure program -- in a vote scheduled to begin late Tuesday morning.