Biden backs Pelosi plan to hold infrastructure deal until Senate passes reconciliation bill
President Biden said Thursday the newly-announced bipartisan infrastructure proposal will work "in tandem" with a Democratic reconciliation bill, vowing he'll refuse to sign the former without the latter.
Biden announced his support for the bipartisan infrastructure deal on Thursday following a meeting with a group of senators. As The New York times explains, Democrats are open to the agreement, "provided that their moderate colleagues accept a second, much larger package that would address key priorities and be passed using the fast-track budget reconciliation process, which would bypass the need for Republican votes in the Senate." Such a deal would be "more expansive than traditional infrastructure" and would be expected to only be supported by Democrats, CNN's Kaitlan Collins writes.
In a news conference, Biden indicated he'll refuse to sign the infrastructure bill without the reconciliation bill.
"I expect that in the coming months this summer, before the fiscal year is over, that we will have voted on this bill — the infrastructure bill — as well as voted on the budget resolution," he said. "But if only one comes to me, if this is the only thing that comes to me, I'm not signing it. It's in tandem."
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