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Infrastructure deal with political risks nears, crypto curbs and America’s Covid resilience.

Three Republican senators said President Joe Biden’s assurance that he isn’t linking a bipartisan $579 billion infrastructure plan to a larger tax and spending bill will allow negotiations to move ahead. Yet the agreement with a group of moderate senators doesn’t include many progressive priorities, in particular aggressive policies to curb climate change. All that means anxiety is rising among progressives that the president won’t fulfil their aspirations for expansions of voting rights and spending on social programs.