Leahy voices frustration over budget impasse

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., in his Russell Senate Building office. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger
WASHINGTON — Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., says there are some spending initiatives that lawmakers in both major parties agree on. Other initiatives, however, are more divisive: President Trump’s idea to upgrade the country’s infrastructure by drawing on local and state government funding, for instance.
“Yeah,” Leahy said during a recent interview in his office in the C