Kelsey Snell
Kelsey Snell is a Congressional correspondent for NPR. She has covered Congress since 2010 for outlets including The Washington Post, Politico and National Journal. She has covered elections and Congress with a reporting specialty in budget, tax and economic policy. She has a graduate degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. and an undergraduate degree in political science from DePaul University in Chicago.
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As Democrats scramble to move forward on President Biden's social spending agenda, leaders say they have reached agreement on a framework to pay for it. -
Democratic leaders say they have agreement on a framework for the reconciliation package. But they didn't share any details on what such a deal might include.
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Moderate and progressive Democrats are at an impasse over the size of the reconciliation package. Some of them met with President Biden at the White House.
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Democrats have just over a week to come up with a plan to avoid a government shutdown after tying a spending bill to a suspension of the federal debt limit. -
The House on Tuesday passed a bill to extend current spending levels through Dec. 3 and suspend the cap on federal debt through 2022. But Senate Republicans oppose it and show no signs of budging. -
The government is about to run out of borrowing power — risking the possibility of a federal default that could create harmful ripples throughout the economy as soon as next month.
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Democrats are finalizing plans to fund President Biden's domestic agenda, largely by rolling back tax cuts for wealthy people and corporations passed by Republicans during the Trump years.
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Democrats are hoping to use a maneuver called budget reconciliation to pass a big economic plan over Republican objections. Here's what you need to know about the process. -
A key House Democrat released a plan to increase taxes on corporations and top earners to help offset some of the cost of a plan for child care, community college and many other programs. -
Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders is off to Indiana and Iowa to sell voters on the $3.5 trillion spending plan. His goal is to convince them that big federal spending can improve their lives.
