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 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. -
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. -
Republicans' opposition leaves the federal government teetering on the brink of a partial shutdown. -
Democrats must untangle a potential government shutdown Thursday, a potential federal default, a vote on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill and a related vote on as much as $3.5 trillion in spending. -
As Democrats scramble to move forward on President Biden's social spending agenda, leaders say they have reached agreement on a framework to pay for it. -
Democrats have just over a week to come up with a plan to avoid a government shutdown after tying a spending bill to a suspension of the federal debt limit.
