A bipartisan group of senators is making an eleventh-hour push to shield President Biden’s billion-dollar broadband investment from being diluted by new taxes.
could include everything from extending research and development tax credits for businesses to re-upping a version of Biden’s enhanced child tax credit. Negotiations — and some potential horse-trading — are underway.
It could also be the last chance for Democrats to make the changes they want while they control both chambers of Congress. In the Senate, they will still need 60 votes.With vulnerable lawmakers eager to get out of town and defend their seats on the campaign trail, leaders in both chambers want to wrap up legislative business this week and come back after the election.
The promise of more than a month of uninterrupted campaign time for senators was threatened today by a