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    Senate delivers a major boost to Biden's agenda

    In a statement issued after the Senate's passed the roughly $700 billion bill, the president said "doing the important thing almost always" requires compromises.
    by NPR Washington Desk Aug 08, 2022 3 minutes
    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference after passage of the Inflation Reduction Act at the U.S. Capitol on Sunday.

    Congress is on the verge of passing President Biden's signature legislative achievement after Senate Democrats approved a major climate, health care and tax bill on Sunday.

    "It's been a long tough and winding road but at last, at last, we have arrived," Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said before Sunday's vote, which came after more than 24 hours of debate and votes on amendments to the Inflation Reduction Act. The measure passed after Vice President Kamala Harris cast a tie-breaking vote.

    The vote is aafter testing negative a second time for COVID. Although his approval ratings are still underwater, Biden has witnessed an unusual stretch of good news: from to bipartisan legislation passing Congress, and the . Democrats, meanwhile, have something to campaign on with less than three months left for the midterms, where they are expected to lose ground.

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