“oh the days dwindle down to a precious few september november” the song goes omitting october because it didn’t rhyme but that month begins the final quarter of the year when what hasn’t been accomplished in the first nine months has to get done in the final three before the calendar flips the sense of time running out is palpable in washington where president joe biden’s economic agenda was hanging in the balance at ’s end as progressives and moderates in his own democratic party fight over the size of the programs