USA: Democratic Party In-fighting: Here's what’s in and out of Democrats’ big social-spending bill — for now-by Victor Reklaitis and Robert Schroeder -

< House Democrats are moving ahead with their $1.75 trillion social-spending bill, with voting measure possible as soon as this week even as parts of it face resistance in the Senate.

Smarting from election results including a loss in Virginia’s gubernatorial contest, members of President Joe Biden’s party have added into the bill items like paid family and medical leave and a sharp increase in the $10,000 cap on the state and local tax deduction — or SALT, for short. Biden, speaking to reporters on Wednesday, said “people want us to get things done.”

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