“I did not handle this right,” Lloyd J. Austin III said after being widely criticized for failing to immediately disclose his absence to the White House.
The offers amount to a starting gun in the price talks between the federal government and the makers of 10 prescription drugs that have been selected for negotiations.
The House approved a $78 billion tax package Wednesday with a large bipartisan margin. The effort is a test of whether a dysfunctional Congress can pass major legislation in an election year.
House Republicans have charged President Biden’s homeland security secretary with breaking the law by failing to enforce border mandates, but statute gives him wide authority to address immigration.
Republicans planned on Wednesday to push a $78 billion bipartisan tax bill through the House. The effort is a test of whether a dysfunctional Congress can pass major legislation in an election year.