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As Congress inches closer to a vote on infrastructure, could prescription drug pricing reform

make it into the reconciliation bill after all?

Senate and House Democrats in the White House came close to reaching a deal on the issue Sunday,

report our own Burgess Everett, Alice Miranda Olstein, and Heather Kegel.

The plan in the works would allow some Medicare negotiations with pharmaceutical companies,

but if it comes together, it would still be much narrower than many Democrats had initially intended.

As a result, House votes on the two big bills will likely get pushed past Tuesday.

But the party's getting closer.

Progressive signaled on a private call, they are expected to be on board behind both bills.

The House Rules Committee is delaying a planned to money meeting to give negotiations more time.

That's per Bloomberg's agent for Epstein and Justin Sink. And paid family leave looks like it's likely to get jettisoned from the build-back better bill.

But the surge of attention and activism on the issue could open the door for bipartisan negotiations on the issue in the future.

As some business groups

and Republicans tell Jonathan Weissman from the New York Times that there might be a path forward

for standalone legislation. Still, any compromise bill would be less generous and take longer to

implement than the plan that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand had championed.

We're heading into the home stretch of the most important election in 2021, the

gubernatorial election in Virginia.

538's poll tracker has Republican candidate Glenn Yonkin with its late lead, now up by an

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