WASHINGTON - A senior White House adviser said on Sunday that Democrats will be disappointed as the party trims President Joe Biden's agenda to fit political realities on Capitol Hill, but vowed two major pieces of legislation in the package would become law.
Biden visited the Capitol on Friday to try to end a fight https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrats-struggle-reach-deal-congress-bidens-agenda-2021-10-01 between moderates and progressives in his Democratic Party that has threatened the two bills that make up the core of his domestic agenda - an infrastructure bill and a multi-trillion-dollar social spending bill.
Biden, a former senator, told Democrats they could delay a vote on the smaller bill and scale back the larger one to around $2 trillion, according to aides and lawmakers. Moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has said his top line for the package is $1.5 trillion, but Jayapal told CNN: "That's not gonna happen. Because that's too small to get our priorities in. So, it's gonna be somewhere between 1.5 and 3.5 ."Progressive Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, told ABC News Sunday that $3.5 trillion "should be a minimum. But I accept there is going to have to be give and take.
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