The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
's social-spending agenda without Republican support, focusing on childcare, education, health care and climate policy.
In a letter earlier in the day, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.67754 years, or 319.74278 years in dog years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
told Democrats that the goal is for congressional committees to write legislation by Sept. 15, before the House returns from its August recess.
With the Senate split 50-50, Democrats must keep moderates -- who could oppose elements of the agenda -- on their side, and approve the massive spending bill using a process known as budget reconciliation.
The move came as the Senate is close to passing a roughly 1-trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill, after the upper chamber voted to clear a key procedural hurdle to advance the bill over the weekend.
The White House and a bipartisan group of senators reached an agreement on the infrastructure bill after months of negotiations, which includes 550 billion dollars in new spending on infrastructure projects.
Along with the infrastructure negotiations, Schumer and other Democratic leaders have been seeking to advance the 3.5-trillion-dollar spending plan in a separate bill without Republican support, calling it the "two-track strategy."