Biden heading to Capitol Hill to meet with House Democrats amid infighting
President Joe Biden will head to Capitol Hill Friday afternoon to meet with House Democrats, White House officials said, amid party infighting over passing his agenda.
Biden, who has kept a low public profile most of the week while negotiating behind the scenes trying to break the impasse, is set to meet with Democrats at 3:30 p.m.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has twice had to delay a vote on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan Biden supports because progressive Democrats are vowing to defeat it unless they also get a vote on $3.5 trillion social and climate policy measure he also supports -- but one that two moderate Democratic senators have objected to as too costly.
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Biden headed to Capitol with agenda in the balance
President Biden will travel to Capitol Hill Friday afternoon to meet with members of the House Democratic caucus, the White House said.
The planned trip to Capitol Hill comes as Democrats wrangle over their $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.
House Democrats were forced to delay a scheduled vote on the separate, Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill on Thursday evening as progressives vowed to oppose it without movement on the larger package. Moderate Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) have opposed the $3.5 trillion price tag and other elements of the package, raising doubts about its fate in the evenly split Senate.
Biden's presence on Capitol Hill will be a significant development and shows the president getting involved in the negotiations beyond private phone calls and meetings at the White House.
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