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The House has started debate on President Joe Biden’s social spending package – as the president showcases his newly signed infrastructure deal and what it means for electric vehicles. The battle over vaccine mandates rages on. New Hampshire lawmakers pass a measure to ban them altogether. And hundreds of workers in Los Angeles face unpaid leave. This, while the Biden administration plans to ramp up vaccine production. Catholic bishops gather to discuss communion – and create a new document on giving communion. It comes after controversy over catholic politicians who support abortion.

President Joe Biden and Democrats are racing to seal an agreement on Biden’s spending package. What’s still on the table? And what’s likely to be cut? Arizona’s governor is threatening legal action against Tuscon’s vaccine mandate. That’s while over 10,000 Air Force personnel are set to miss the vaccine deadline. Ahead of Virginia’s gubernatorial election, the race is still tight. Both parties are spending heavily on campaigns in the state. Meanwhile, a Virginia county has been sued for violating election laws.

Democrats are giving themselves another month to reach a deal on President Joe Biden’s social spending package. This, after the House delayed a vote on the smaller package twice last week. What’s the holdup? And why is a moderate concerned about the deadlock? No chance of a vaccine mandate for students in West Virginia, says the governor. This while in New York a teacher opts out of the vaccine despite the mandate. U.S. Marines deployed to Afghanistan return home, after nine Marines from their battalion were killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport on Aug. 26.

Democrats are pushing a massive spending package through the senate without Republicans. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) say they will get creative to block what some are calling the “bloated” virus relief bill. A new report from the Investigator General at the Transportation Department. It alleges former Secretary Elaine Chao acted unethically. But will she be prosecuted? An update on the border crash that left 13 people dead. Officials say the SUV was one of two cars that came in through a hole in the border fence. And the other one also had a separate accident.