WASHINGTON—President Biden is planning to pursue an expansive agenda if voters give him a second term, including resurrecting proposals for cheaper child care and prescription drugs, tuition-free community college, an assault-weapons ban and higher taxes on rich Americans.

       But if Democrats don’t expand their numbers on Capitol Hill, many of those plans could be dead on arrival in Congress, suffering the same fate they faced in Biden’s first term. That will raise the stakes as Democrats fight to retake the House and hold their majority in the Senate in order to enact many of Biden’s biggest plans.

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