Biden open to shortening length of programs in spending bill

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President Joe Biden said he would prefer to cut the duration of programs in his big social services and climate change package rather than eliminate some entirely, as Democrats struggle to win support from moderates by trimming a $3.5 trillion proposal.

Biden’s comments, reassuring progressives on what he hopes will be a landmark piece of his legacy, marked his clearest comments yet on how he hopes negotiations over the bill will play out. Appearing to side with a strategy preferred by progressive lawmakers, it marked at least a subtle break with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has suggested that most Democrats prefer to focus on establishing a few enduring programs.

Biden said Friday that although he expects the package to shrink, “we’re going to come back and get the rest” after it’s passed. With slim margins in the House and the Senate, Democrats have no votes to spare on the bill. The whittling processThe party’s internal debate was apparent as Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wrote an opinion column for a West Virginia newspaper calling out that state’s Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin by name for blocking the domestic package so far.

Manchin shot back in a statement late Friday, saying: “It isn’t the first time an out-of-stater has tried to tell West Virginians what is best for them.” Sanders and Manchin stand, respectively, as among the Democrats’ most progressive and conservative senators.

 

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Manchin is not a moderate, he's a conservative.

You mean two moderates holding things up.

JonLemire Fine. Whatever. Get it done, POTUS. You get along with both sides. Sit them down, knock heads together if you have to, and cut all the stupid squabbling so that somebody can benefit from something.

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2.7 trillion is the number and if 2 Senators don't get on board. Pull the plug on the infrastructure bill to and blame 2 Senators...

Slight of hand - 3T for 10 yrs or 1.5T for 5 yrs.

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