Senate Democrats are vowing to vote during this work period, tentatively scheduled to last through the first week of August, on both the budget resolution that green-lights reconciliation and the smaller bipartisan deal that would spend $1.2 trillion over eight years on infrastructure.
The Hill’s Jordain Carney has the latest here.
Brewing battle over tax hikes to test Democratic unity
: Even so, a brewing battle over tax policy is starting to heat up as lawmakers return to Washington for a crucial work period when both of those issues converge.
Schumer and Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee have discussed a $6 trillion reconciliation package that would include $2.4 trillion in tax increases and legislation to lower the price of prescription drugs that would save the federal government an estimated $600 billion over 10 years.
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The backstory: Democrats have long complained about Saul’s tenure at SSA, and tensions peaked earlier this year over a delay in sending out stimulus checks to those on Social Security benefits and other programs administered by SSA.
“Since taking office, Commissioner Saul has undermined and politicized Social Security disability benefits, terminated the agency’s telework policy that was utilized by up to 25 percent of the agency’s workforce, not repaired SSA’s relationships with relevant Federal employee unions including in the context of COVID-19 workplace safety planning, reduced due process protections for benefits appeals hearings, and taken other actions that run contrary to the mission of the agency and the President’s policy agenda,” the White House official said.