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The bipartisan group of Senate negotiators speak to reporters just after a vote to start work on a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2021. From left are Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate on track to approve $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill this week, key senators say

By Tom Howell Jr. and Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives to meet with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., before an event to promote investments in clean jobs, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Dems rush $1.2 trillion infrastructure package after GOP helps them clear filibuster hurdle

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin arrives for an event in Richmond, Va., on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

Youngkin pledges $1.5 billion in tax relief from state surplus

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times
This May 4, 2021, file image shows teacher Graciela Olague-Barrios reading to two infants at Cuidando Los Ninos in Albuquerque, N.M. The charity provides housing, child care and financial counseling for mothers. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan) ** FILE **

Dems eye specific carve-out for taxpayer-funded raises for care workers

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times
Then-President Donald Trump meets with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, shown left, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, not shown, in the Oval Office at the White House, Monday, July 20, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

'He doesn't fight': Trump slams McConnell for helping advance Biden's $1.2T infrastructure deal

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., updates reporters on the latest action in the infrastructure negotiations between Republicans and Democrats, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

'We have the votes': Senate advances Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal

By Haris Alic and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2021. Pelosi discussed her reasons for rejecting two Republicans chosen by House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to be on the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Pelosi pledges to hold up infrastructure bill, as Portman says Senate is nearing a deal

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
In this May 11, 2021, file photo Republican gubernatorial candidate, Glenn Youngkin, speaks during an event in Richmond, Va. Youngkin's campaign announced Monday, July 12, 2021, that he would not debate Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe at a perennial event hosted by the state bar association, in part because of the journalist moderator. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Virginia gubernatorial nominee slashed tax bill by designating home an agricultural property

By Associated Press
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., left, talks to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during a news conference. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Not a 'rubber stamp': House Democrats threaten to wreck bipartisan infrastructure bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
House Budget Committee ranking member Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., left, accompanied by House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., second from right, and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., right, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

House GOP seeks budget caps as check to Biden's 'harmful spending agenda'

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden interacts with members of the audience during a commercial break for a CNN town hall at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Restaurant owner says Biden ducked his question about hiring workers

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport in Bullhead City, Ariz. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump: Dems want to 'completely change America through the reconciliation process'

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
In this file photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., laugh after Waters told Pelosi a funny story, after Pelosi signed bill enrollments for Congressional Review Act Resolutions S. J. Res. 13, 14 and 15, Tuesday, June 29, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Democrats' plan for race-based housing aid draws lawsuit threats, charges of reverse discrimination

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other GOP senators speak to reporters ahead of a test vote scheduled by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York on the bipartisan infrastructure deal senators brokered with President Joe Biden, in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Republicans are prepared to block the vote over what they see as a rushed and misguided process. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden's infrastructure bill blocked by Senate filibuster

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., flanked by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., holds a news conference to talk about the benefits of the Child Tax Credit, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2021. The U.S. government is starting to deposit child tax credit money into the accounts of more than 35 million families as part of coronavirus relief. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Chuck Schumer dares Republicans to vote against $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
In this March 10, 2020, file photo, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill, in Washington. According to an investigation from the Office of Inspector General, during congressional testimony three years ago, the former U.S. Commerce Secretary gave a misleading reason for why he wanted a citizenship question on the 2020 census. An investigation by the watchdog agency showed that Ross misrepresented the reason for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census questionnaire during two appearances before House committees in March 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Audit finds Trump Cabinet official misled Congress over census citizenship question

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 10, 2021. Portman is working with a bipartisan group of 10 senators negotiating an infrastructure deal with President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Plan to beef up IRS dropped from infrastructure bill talks

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
In this file photo, just-cut stacks of $100 bills make their way down the production line at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

American taxpayers, not foreign investors, are on the hook for Dems' trillions in new spending

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., flanked by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., holds a news conference to talk about the benefits of the Child Tax Credit, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2021. The U.S. government is starting to deposit child tax credit money into the accounts of more than 35 million families as part of coronavirus relief. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer pressures Dems to wrap up infrastructure, reconciliation before August recess

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., walks to meet with Democratic members of the Texas legislature to discuss voting rights after they left Austin trying to kill a Republican bill that would make it harder to vote in Texas, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Manchin in the middle: Pressure mounts in West Virginia to oppose $3.5 trillion spending package

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
In this file photo dated Friday, May 7, 2021, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a press briefing at the White House, in Washington, USA. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Treasury pays out $15 billion in first Child Tax Credit payments

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a key negotiator in the infrastructure talks, is surrounded by reporters as walks through the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Progressives' carbon-free push could choke off Dems' $3.5 trillion spending deal

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks with members of the media after leaving a meeting with fellow Democrats at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, to discuss the latest progress on his infrastructure agenda. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden lobbies Democrats to unite behind $3.5 trillion 'human infrastructure' package

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Police officers walk enveloped by teargas in Portland, Friday, March 29, 2020. After hours of largely peaceful demonstrations, violence escalated late Friday in downtown Portland, as hundreds of people gathered to protest the Minneapolis police killing of a black man, George Floyd . (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP)

Biden urges cities to use COVID funds to hire cops, despite police skepticism

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Sarasota Fairgrounds Saturday, July 3, 2021, in Sarasota, Fla. (AP Photo/Jason Behnken)

Trump chides New York prosecutors for trying to 'take him out' with tax fraud case

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times
The Trump Organization's Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg appears in court in New York, Thursday, July 1, 2021. Weisselberg was arraigned a day after a grand jury returned an indictment charging him and Trump’s company with tax crimes. Trump himself was not charged. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig,Pool)

Trump Organization, CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads not guilty to tax crimes

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times
In this Nov. 24, 2020, photo, a waitress serves patrons sitting outdoors for dinner separated by plastic dividers with national flags at Mel's drive-in restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, Calif. California has now regained more than half of the 2.7 million jobs it lost at the start of the pandemic, state officials said Friday, June 17, 2021, a trend driven by restaurants and hotels hiring more people as the state gradually reopens its economy. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) **FILE**

CBO sees supercharged recovery as pandemic dissipates, predicts severe inflation in coming months

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., does a cable news interview before the start of a two-week recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Earlier, President Joe Biden announced a bipartisan agreement on a pared-down infrastructure plan that would make a start on his top legislative priority and validate his efforts to reach across the political aisle. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

McConnell urges Biden to rebuke Dems for holding infrastructure 'hostage'

By Haris Alic and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks with reporters as he walks at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 24, 2021. A bipartisan group of lawmakers have negotiated a plan to pay for an estimated $1 trillion compromise plan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Manchin pitches repeal of Trump tax cuts, $1.5T in social spending to secure infrastructure deal

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds a hearing with Ranking Member Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., right, on infrastructure needs of the U.S. energy sector, western water and public lands, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Manchin and other Senate infrastructure negotiators are meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House later today. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Barrasso: Republicans more hesitant on infrastructure deal despite Biden's walkback of veto threat

By Dave Boyer and Haris Alic - The Washington Times

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