Kelsey Snell
Kelsey Snell is a Congressional correspondent for NPR. She has covered Congress since 2010 for outlets including The Washington Post, Politico and National Journal. She has covered elections and Congress with a reporting specialty in budget, tax and economic policy. She has a graduate degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. and an undergraduate degree in political science from DePaul University in Chicago.
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The measure was delayed by an all-night speech from GOP leader Kevin McCarthy. Centrist Democrats in the Senate have raised objections to some provisions that will likely alter the House-passed bill. -
President Biden and House Democrats are planning more than 1,000 events in the coming weeks to try to sell voters on the Build Back Better plan as they face sour poll numbers. -
The Biden administration believes the resulting legislation will still be transformative, but it is far less than what the president originally proposed. -
Democrats say the tax on billionaire assets would help pay for President Biden's social spending bill. -
House Democrats made changes to Biden's Build Back Better framework. The $1.75 T bill includes paid family leave, help with prescription drug costs and immigration reforms. Here are the details. -
Top Democrats are currently working behind the scenes to cut the cost of programs without undermining their policy goals. -
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says the Senate will vote next week on voting rights as Democrats try to advance much of President Biden's agenda. -
After a deal was reached with Republicans, Senate Democrats passed a bill to avoid the immediate threat of default by shifting the debt limit deadline to early December. -
The agreement could push the fight over how to raise the nation's borrowing limit to December. -
The short-term spending bill avoids a partial government shutdown, but other major issues, such as suspending the debt limit, remain unresolved.