Source: ROLL CALL, 10/20/21


Democrats on Wednesday dived into the push-pull phase of their spending and tax negotiations in hopes of reaching agreement on the broad contours of a budget reconciliation package in the $2 trillion ballpark as soon as this week. The negotiations entered a new phase after President Joe Biden floated some potential cuts in meetings with progressives and moderates at the White House on Tuesday to bring the measure’s ambitions in line with the reality that two key centrist Senate Democrats — Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema and West Virginia’s Joe Manchin III — want a slimmer bill.

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