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The White House plans to restart negotiations on its $2 trillion spending bill, just days after pivoting to a long shot push for voting rights reform and two weeks after key moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) abandoned talks on the spending measure, Reuters reported on Tuesday. In a new interview, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo expressed certainty that the bill, known as Build Back Better, would succeed but acknowledged that the final version would “look different” from the expansive… Source link

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to be Treasury Secretary, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, after Biden previously said his nominee would “be accepted by all elements of the Democratic Party.” If confirmed, Yellen — the first woman to chair the Fed — will smash another glass ceiling by becoming the first woman to lead the Treasury Department. In making such a choice, President-elect Biden is distinguishing himself from former… Source link