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Where Things Stand: Schumer Sticks With BBB Timeline In Face Of Endless Hurdles

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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 16: Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) speaks at the "Time to Deliver" Home Care Workers rally and march on November 16, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for SEIU)
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December 6, 2021 6:15 p.m.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) lit a fire under some of his colleagues today, stating in a letter to colleagues his ongoing expectation that the Senate will pass the Biden administration’s sweeping Build Back Better package via reconciliation “before Christmas.”

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