The $3.5 trillion budget blueprint would allow Senate Democrats to build legislation that would boost spending on health care, child and elder care, education and climate change, paid for higher taxes on the wealthy, large inheritances and corporations. nyti.ms/3s1f56Y
If Democrats and their two independent allies in the Senate can stick together, that budget measure could pass the Senate without a Republican vote.
— Senate Democrats: 48
— Independents: 2 (both caucus with the Democrats)
— Republicans: 50
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— Senate Democrats: 48
— Independents: 2 (both caucus with the Democrats)
— Republicans: 50
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The budget blueprint, while nonbinding, calls for a series of liberal priorities, including ones championed by Senator Bernie Sanders, like expanding Medicare, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and beefed up labor law enforcement. nyti.ms/3s1f56Y
Democrats are trying to push the boundaries of the fast-track budget process to clear policy changes that otherwise would fail to gain Republican support, but the strict budgetary rules may ultimately prevent their inclusion. nyti.ms/3s1f56Y
Democrats appear to have rejected the possibility of addressing the approaching statutory limit on the federal government’s ability to finance the country’s debt in the budget blueprint. nyti.ms/3yztD0e 
Follow for more on the $3.5 trillion proposal that could prove to be the most significant change to the social safety net in the U.S. since Medicare and the Great Society. nyti.ms/3s1f56Y
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