Biden White House memo reveals strategy to pressure Republicans on COVID relief
A new internal White House memo gives a behind-the-scenes look into the administration's strategy to up the pressure on Republicans to get on board with President Joe Biden’s costly COVID relief proposal, arguing GOP opposition to his American Rescue Plan is damaging the GOP and that "this is not a moment in the country when obstructionism is rewarded."
"There seems to be a growing conventional wisdom that it is either politically smart – or, at worst, cost-free – for the GOP to adopt an obstructionist, partisan, base-politics posture,” White House Senior Adviser Mike Donilon wrote in the memo to White House senior staff, first reported by Axios and obtained by ABC News.
“However, there is lots of evidence that the opposite is true: that it isn’t politically smart for the GOP to be going down this road. And rather than being cost-free, this approach has been quite damaging to them."
Throughout his campaign for the White House, Biden repeatedly promised to work across the aisle to earn Republican support for his policies. But in his first legislative endeavor, no congressional Republicans yet have signaled support for the nearly $2 trillion plan, despite ongoing conversations between the Biden Administration and some Senate Republicans.
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