A bipartisan group of senators met via Zoom on Monday to try to figure out a path forward on Russia sanctions legislation amid growing tensions with Moscow.
The expanded child tax credit, a signature accomplishment of President Biden’s first year in office, is set to lapse in a few days, and Democratic lawmakers acknowledge they don’t have a viable backup plan to extend the popular measure.
Senate Democrats are stumbling into the end of their first year in the majority, with two of their biggest priorities President Biden’s spending bill and voting rights stuck in limbo.