Bipartisan infrastructure deal stalls as bigger plan gains
LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press
July 13, 2021
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1of5Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters before meeting with Democratic members of the Texas Legislature who are trying to kill a Republican bill in Austin that would make it harder to vote in the Lone Star State, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 13, 2021.J. Scott Applewhite/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting on reducing gun violence, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, July 12, 2021, in Washington.Evan Vucci/APShow MoreShow Less
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Mitch McConnell âPerplexedâ By COVID-19 Vaccine Resistance His Own Party Is Pushing
âI can only speak for myself,â the top Republican in the Senate said when asked about other GOP senators fueling vaccine hesitancy.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) again urged Americans to get vaccinated to protect themselves and their loved ones from the deadly COVID-19 virus as the pace of vaccinations slows across the country.
At a press conference on Tuesday, he said he was âperplexedâ by some peopleâs reluctance to get vaccinated.Â
âWe need to keep preaching that getting the vaccine is important,â said McConnell, who survived polio as a child. âWe need to finish the job. Part of it is just convincing the American people of the importance of doing this. Everyone who knows the subject says that if you get the disease, chances are pretty good youâre not going to die from it if you get vaccinated.â
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WASHINGTON 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.