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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: House to Vote on Abortion Access This Week
The House will vote this week on a bill that would protect the right to abortion services across the country, a move spurred by a Texas-led effort to restrict abortion access.
Teen Migrant Labor Trafficking Spurs Lawmakers to Demand Answers
The Biden administration must answer for a multiagency investigation into potential labor trafficking of unaccompanied migrant children released from government custody, according to lawmakers from both parties.
U.S. Probes Whether Teen Migrants Sent to Labor Traffickers (1)
Federal law enforcement officials are investigating whether unaccompanied migrant teenagers have been released from government custody to labor traffickers who sent them to work in agricultural processing facilities in numerous cities, according to an internal email and two sources briefed on the situation.
Worst Federal Worker Morale Spurs DHS Secretary to Make Changes
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is seeking to make the Department of Homeland Security a better place to work, a formidable task at an agency with the worst morale in Washington.
What to Know in Washington: Senate Poised to Pass Infrastructure
The Senate is heading toward passage this week of the $550 billion infrastructure bill that would provide the biggest infusion of federal spending on public works in decades and mark a major milestone for President Joe Biden’s economic agenda.
HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Biden’s Delta Struggles Loom Over Agenda
President Joe Biden is struggling with a surge in coronavirus cases, an impending wave of evictions and spikes in consumer prices that have left the White House looking unprepared—and threaten to undercut months of more sure-handed work on the Covid-19 pandemic. The president surprised Congress last week with a last-minute plea to extend a federal...
What to Know in Washington: Biden’s Agenda Advances in Senate
President Joe Biden’s ambitious economic plans got a major push forward with the Senate voting to begin work on a $550 billion infrastructure bill and Democrats uniting behind a plan to muscle through a broader budget resolution to carry the party’s priorities.
Transit Spending Pitched as Means to Boost Equity, Aid Climate
Boosting transit funding would advance racial equity, an advocacy campaign is arguing as it seeks to influence lawmakers’ work on a major infrastructure package.
What to Know in Washington: Infrastructure Talks Near Finish
Senators negotiating a $579 billion infrastructure package are aiming to finish negotiations early this week, under pressure from colleagues to salvage an August recess and to allow the Senate to turn to preventing a government shutdown and debt ceiling default in the fall.
Senators Push to Ease Cuba Trade Ban as Biden Demurs, for Now
A new bipartisan push in Congress to open up Cuba for U.S. agriculture stands the best chance of moving ahead with a trade relationship that has bedeviled American presidents over decades.