Infrastructure law programs on hold until Congress passes budget

Yet lawmakers long have been divided over the specifics of the budget. Democrats hope to approve massive boosts to federal domestic agencies, no longer capped by a law that limited such spending for a decade. To that end, Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.), the House’s top appropriator, led her party toward approving about a dozen spending bills that financed Biden’s proposals to expand federal health care, education and science programs.