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News of Sen. Ben Ray Lujan’s (D-N.M.) stroke sent shockwaves through the Senate on Tuesday, underscoring the fragility of Democrats’ 50-50 majority.

“I think there’s ways to do that. Hopefully it won’t be smoke and mirrors. Bottom line, this is probably the toughest part about this from my perspective, is how you get a pay-for,” he said, referring to finding a way to offset the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars in new infrastructure spending without raising taxes. Many Democrats, including Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden Jayapal argues the more time spent on bipartisan negotiations means the longer Congress will go without passing a significant infrastructure investment bill. “Every day that is wasted trying to...

The group is expected to be looking at a proposal of around $900 billion, but they've been careful not to publicly release a number, saying the level of spending isn't yet locked in. Biden's initial infrastructure proposal exceeded $2.2 trillion. The red line on taxes comes after the bipartisan group met Tuesday night in a Senate basement office as they try to craft a bipartisan infrastructure deal. ADVERTISEMENT "We made a lot of good progress. ... We went through line by line and we've got pretty good agreement on most of those" components, Romney told reporters after the late-night meeti...

  A bipartisan group of House moderates on Wednesday unveiled an eight-year, $1.25 trillion infrastructure plan designed to help break the months-long impasse over President Biden The framework offered by the 58-member Problem Solvers Caucus calls for more than $959 billion for traditional infrastructure, including highways, bridges, rail, airports and waterways; $25 billion of that money would be set aside for electric vehicle infrastructure, including electric buses. The plan also calls for $74 billion for drinking water and wastewater systems; $71 billion for the electric grid and clean...

ADVERTISEMENT Under regulations the Trump administration finalized last year, certain types of tax-exempt groups no longer have to provide the names and addresses of major donors on annual IRS forms. The disclosure requirement was removed for groups that include "social welfare" organizations such as the National Rifle Association and the American Civil Liberties Union as well as business leagues and labor unions.  The groups still have to provide the IRS with the amounts of donations from major donors and keep the donor information in their records. Republicans argued that the donor informa...