As Democrats prepare for an upcoming legal battle over raising the debt ceiling later this month, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is looking at attaching a limit increase to the Senate-passed infrastructure bill or Sen. Sanders’ (I-Vt.) $3.5 trillion budget resolution. The debt ceiling, the federal government’s borrowing limit, can only be raised…
Democrats Use Ida to Push $5 Trillion of Spending
News Analysis The paths of the Senate-passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJ) and Sen. Sanders’ (I-Vt.) $3.5 trillion spending package have been fraught with difficulties since their introduction, facing pushback by moderate Democrats and conservative Republicans in the House and Senate. Now, Democrats are looking to a new strategy to pass these broad pieces…
Manchin Rejects Sanders’ $3.5 Trillion Budget in Op-Ed, Imperiling Its Future
News Analysis In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has come out squarely against Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) expansive budget resolution. Manchin’s opposition puts the bill—which President Biden considers an integral part of his “build back better” agenda—in grave danger of failure in the Senate. The budget resolution advanced…
How to Stretch a Tight Business Budget
Small business owners and solopreneurs can be on a pretty tight budget for the first year of business. Your income varies as you find your footing, and even low overhead businesses require some start-up cash. You can stretch a tight budget with a little bit of creativity. Tap Into Your Network When you first start out your…
Standout Amendments in Sen. Sanders’ $3.5 Trillion Budget
As the Republicans and Democrats worked together to pass the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Tuesday morning, another proposal in the Senate has been far more contentious: Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) $3.5 trillion budget resolution. The infrastructure bill and the budget resolution make up what Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called President Joe Biden’s “two-track strategy.”…
Nine House Democrats Demand Pelosi Allow Passage of Infrastructure Bill Ahead of Budget Resolution
Nine Democrats in the House of Representatives on Thursday urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to quickly allow a vote on the Senate-passed infrastructure bill before the lower chamber considers the larger, $3.5 trillion budget resolution. The House should “immediately pass” the infrastructure legislation, they wrote to Pelosi. “We urge our House colleagues to follow…
NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Aug. 11)
The $3.5 trillion budget is advancing through the Senate without Republican votes, the White House is trying to appeal to Millennials and Gen Z to get vaccinated by using TikTok, and a ban on federal Critical Race Theory funding passed in the Senate.
What’s Inside Sen. Sanders’ $3.5 Trillion Budget
News Analysis On Aug. 11, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) publicly released the full text of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) $3.5 trillion budget proposal. A few hours later, the Senate narrowly confirmed the budget 50-49. Now, the budget must win approval from the House of Representatives after they return from their recess. The outline…
Breaking Down the Budget Plan’s Spending on the Environment
In the early hours of Aug. 11, Senate Democrats took another step towards approving a $3.5 trillion budget plan through reconciliation, with the aim of “allow[ing] every major program proposed by President Biden to receive robust funding” while avoiding a Republican filibuster. A significant amount of the proposed funding will likely go to programs involving…
NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Aug. 10)
New York’s Governor Cuomo announces his resignation, Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget bill is on the Senate floor after the chamber passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package earlier this week, and multiple school districts in Florida and Texas are defying their governors and requiring masks for students as young as pre-kindergarten.
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