WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's campaign-style drive for another batch of economic stimulus spending is facing defeat yet again at the hands of Republicans in the Senate.
This time it's Obama's $60 billion plan for infrastructure jobs that is expected to fall victim to a GOP filibuster Thursday. In votes last month, Republicans blocked Obama's entire $447 billion jobs package and a subsequent attempt to pass a $35 billion piece of it aimed at preventing layoffs of teachers and firefighters.
In turn, the president's Democratic allies are likely to kill a competing GOP plan that would extend existing highway and transit spending programs, accompanied by a $40 billion cut in unspent funding for other domestic programs.
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