Infrastructure

Optimism for transformational funding for the nation’s historically Black colleges was running high after the Biden administration included $45 billion for the schools in its massive multitrillion-dollar spending plan.

President Joe Biden defended his "Build Back Better" spending plan in a Tuesday speech, insisting once again that he is a “capitalist” at heart and that his bill currently tied up in Congress is fully paid for.

President Biden is expected to stress the importance of his economic agenda to ensure the United States is competitive with China, while saying the passage of both the infrastructure bill and Democrats' reconciliation bill would give Americans a fair shot in the evolving 21st century economy.

President Biden is meeting with House moderates in the 10 a.m. hour on Tuesday after a meeting with House progressives Monday.

There were a lot of theories about what role President Biden may take on late last week for a visit with House Democrats and how he would win them over to his big infrastructure bill and the social spending package.

A medical glove manufacturing facility promising to employ nearly 2,500 people is coming to southwest Virginia, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Monday, calling the news the biggest job-creation announcement in the struggling region in a generation.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed Monday that President Biden's Build Back Better agenda will cost nothing for Americans who make less than $400,000.

Progressives in the Democrat Party seemed to have taken a page out of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s playbook and vowed Sunday that they will eventually pass the $1 trillion infrastructure bill and the hotly contested reconciliation package that comes with no Republican support.

Cedric Richmond, senior adviser to President Biden, insisted Sunday that the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill will cost “zero” due to tax hikes on the wealthy.

Democrats, especially liberals, tout a lofty, ambitious agenda. But can you do that with nominal control of a 50/50 Senate and a three-vote margin in the House? You cannot alter the laws of Congressional physics. And there some who gained and some who lost as Democrats floated back to earth.

Larry Kudlow addressed the fight to pass the congressional spending bills during his Friday monologue on "Kudlow."

Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham are asking the Congressional Budget Office to provide the American people with the 'true cost' of the multi-trillion-dollar spending package being pushed by Democrats.

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, led a letter with 32 of his Senate Republican colleagues blasting a provision the House Democrat’s multitrillion-dollar budget reconciliation bill that would impose harsh marriage tax penalties.

Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., argues "it's a power game" as Democrats try to jam the reconciliation bill through.

House Democrats couldn't muscle through the bipartisan infrastructure bill Thursday