US President Joe Biden has acknowledged frustrations as Democrats strain to rescue a scaled-back version of his 3.5 trillion dollar government-overhaul plan and salvage a related public works bill after frantic negotiations failed to produce a deal.
US President Joe Biden has acknowledged frustrations as Democrats strain to rescue a scaled-back version of his 3.5 trillion dollar government-overhaul plan and salvage a related public works bill after frantic negotiations failed to produce a deal. “ Everybody’s frustrated, it’s part of being in government, being frustrated,” Mr Biden told reporters before leaving the White House for a weekend stay at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. He pledged to “work like hell” to get the two pillars of his domestic agenda passed into law, but refrained from laying out a new deadline. The president had gone to Capitol Hill on Friday for a private meeting with House Democrats that was partly a morale booster for the disjointed caucus of politicians. According to politicians in the room, he discussed a 1.9 trillion dollar to two trillion-plus dollar price tag for the larger package that would expand the country’s social safety net. The White House and its allies in Congress are prepared for protracted negotiations. Mr Biden said he would soon travel around the country to promote the legislation and he acknowledged concerns that the talk in Washington had become too focused on the trillions in new spending and taxes in the bill.
