President Biden is still trying to have it all: an infrastructure deal with the GOP and a sprawling spending package for his own party. It’s just not clear how much longer the strategy will hold.
President Joe Biden is still trying to have it all: an infrastructure deal with the GOP and a sprawling spending package for his own party. It’s just not clear how much longer the strategy will hold.
Psaki added, in classic D.C. negotiation parlance, “While progress was made, more work remains to be done.” Sen. Joe Manchin leaves a lunch with Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Sen. Jerry Moran , who is part of those bipartisan talks, said a deal between the parties would likely result in “reduced pressure” for Democrats to act on more of their agenda through reconciliation, or by nixing the Senate’s filibuster — a move they don’t have the votes for.
As talk turns to the sequencing of the two bills, questions remain over how the infrastructure package itself could pass on a bipartisan basis. The White House has resisted some of the Senate negotiators’ latest proposals to pay for the bill, sticking to its red line that a gas tax or a tax increase on people making less than $400,000 a year is unacceptable to the president — the kind of hikes that many moderate Hill Democrats are also loath to support.
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