House Dems Delay Huge Social Bill, Plan Infrastructure Vote

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Top Democrats have abruptly postponed an expected House vote on a 10-year, $1.85 trillion social and environment measure.

The Democrats’ long struggle to balance demands from progressives and moderates once again dogged that pillar of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda. 

In a bid to hand him a needed victory, leaders prepared to try pushing an accompanying $1 trillion infrastructure measure through the chamber and to his desk. 

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