The Associated Press (AP) Senate Democrats have reached an agreement on a $3.5 trillion budget. Late Tuesday, Senate Democrats announced that they had achieved an agreement on a budget that would spend $3.5 trillion over the next decade, paving the way for President Joe Biden’s push to invest government funds in climate change, health care, and family-service programs. The agreement is a key step toward the party’s goal of restoring an economy that was destroyed by the pandemic and putting it on a path to long-term prosperity, and it includes a Medicare expansion of vision, hearing, and dental services for older Americans, which is a progressive goal. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters, “We are quite pleased of this approach.”/n
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