WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats controlling the Senate are pushing to spend billions of dollars more than their House GOP rivals on transportation and housing programs despite tough budget limits that promise to roll the increases back.

Those programs include boosting bridge construction and stimulus-style grants for roads, transit, and railroads.

Recommended Stories

A midterm scorecard on the border and immigration

Common sense and context conquer ‘democratic socialism’

Two economic visions: America First vs. global communism