President Joe Biden’s budget proposal, which the president released today, calls for the federal government to collect a record $4,638,000,000,000 in taxes in fiscal 2023. At the same time that the federal government is collecting those record taxes, according to Biden’s proposal, it would also spend $5,792,000,000,000 — resulting in a fiscal 2023 deficit of $1,154,000,000,000.

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Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has told the U.S. ambassador in Moscow that U.S. President Joe Biden’s recent comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin have strained ties between the two countries to “the verge of breaking.”

It was a shortened week at the Capitol due to spring break, but we still had heavy agendas on Monday and Tuesday with more than 70 bills on the agenda. We’ll continue to work diligently on the roughly 200 bills still eligible for consideration in our chamber as we approach the March 24 deadline to advance them to the House of Representatives.