Congressman Jim Clyburn says Democrats will trim social spending bill "carefully"
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House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn says Democrats are modifying the Build Back Better Act, Democrats' massive social spending bill with care, as they try to forge a compromise acceptable to both moderates and progressives in the party.
"We'll trim it down very very carefully — and with a whole lot of trepidation," the South Carolina Democrat said Thursday on CBSN.
While a $3.5 trillion version of the bill has passed the House, the two factions in the Democratic Party have been negotiating about what will remain in the bill. Since it will only have the support of Democrats in the Senate, the measure must win the support of all 50 Democrats in order to pass, and two Senate moderates want to see the price come down before they'll back it.
Authorities made two gruesome discoveries Tuesday after a Missouri woman walked into a police station and told officers that she fatally shot one of her children and drowned the other, officials said. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak said at a news conference that authorities believe both children were killed Tuesday morning.
Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving more than one million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people in seven states during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.