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Last Updated Jul 14, 2021 at 12:14 am EDT
Senate Democrats reach $3.5 trillion budget agreement
WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Democrats announced late Tuesday that they’d reached a budget agreement envisioning spending an enormous $3.5 trillion over the coming decade, paving the way for their drive to pour federal resources into climate change, health care and family-service programs sought by President Joe Biden.
The accord marks a major step in the party’s push to meet Biden’s goal of bolstering an economy that was ravaged by the pandemic and setting it on course for long-term growth and includes a Medicare expansion of vision, hearing and dental benefits for older Americans, a goal of progressives.
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