WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are expected to spend much of September negotiating the size and scope of a proposed $3.5 trillion budget bill that would fund a battery of new government programs.
It’s a negotiation whose outcome Ady Barkan sees as life or death.
The 37-year-old progressive advocate, who uses a wheelchair after being diagnosed with ALS in 2016, is pressuring Democrats to maintain hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending for home care services, arguing that cutting such funding from the legislation would devastate those who need the funding.
