SIT-DOWN COMING SOON: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Trump are planning to meet in the next few weeks to talk infrastructure, a sign the leaders are still hopeful about pushing a bipartisan plan even as contentious issues like immigration and health care continue to divide the two parties.
No progress on pay-fors: How to pay for it remains the question everyone wants to ask, but few want to answer. House Democrats are pushing for an increase in the federal gas tax, but the chances of that passing in the Senate are as close to impossible as it gets while still acknowledging that Congress can be unpredictable on occasion.
