Senate Democrats announce $3.5 trillion budget agreement
WASHINGTON (AP) â Senate Democrats announced Tuesday that they have reached a budget agreement among themselves that envisions spending an enormous $3.5 trillion over the coming decade. The fiscal plan would pave the way for Democrats drive to direct a huge pool of federal resources at climate change, health care and family-service programs sought by President Joe Biden.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced the accord flanked by all 11 Democrats on the chamberâs budget committee after a two-hour evening meeting that capped weeks of bargaining among party leaders, progressives and moderates.
The agreement is a major step in Democrats drive to turn Biden s effort to bolster an economy that was ravaged by the pandemic and set it on a course for long-term growth. Separately, bipartisan senators have been working toward another measure that would spend around $1 trillion on roads, water systems and
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Earlier this month, the three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa massacre testified in Congress about the world they lost when a white mob burned their thriving community to the ground. âThe neighborhood I fell asleep in that night was rich â not just in terms of wealth, but in culture, community and heritage,â said Viola Fletcher, who was visiting the US capital for the first time in her 107 years. âWithin a few hours, all of that was gone.â
After being willfully suppressed from the national memory for close to a century, in many ways the history of the massacre is now more visible than ever â in media, popular culture and even the US Capitol. But this history, and the question of who has the right to tell it, remain contested. That is true even in Tulsa itself, where Black Tulsans say official centennial commemorations have obscured its lingering effects on their community and failed to meaningfully involve d