Congress shows signs of movement on stalled Biden agenda

[PoliticAverse]

After weeks of impasse, there were signs on Monday night that the dam was beginning to break on President Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar domestic agenda.

Democrats don’t have much time to spare after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) set a Thursday vote on a bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, which some liberals are vowing to oppose without more movement on Biden’s $3.5 trillion social-spending and climate package.

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), one of the centrists demanding cuts to the $3.5 trillion package, huddled in the office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) spoke by phone and texted several key moderates, including Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas). Biden held a conference call with the two top Democrats on Capitol Hill, Pelosi and Schumer.

And some liberals, who have been the driving force behind the robust package expanding safety nets and tackling climate change, began floating numbers much lower than the $3.5 trillion initially sought by Pelosi and House Democrats.

Read the rest at: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/574183-congress-shows-signs-of-movement-on-stalled-biden-agenda

[CentralMass]

1. The movement is called back pedalling.

[Walleye]

2. Full court press. Get it done!

[Patton French]

3. They need to do more than show signs

This shouldn’t be so difficult.