“So you got to get through the complicated - the last 10%, as you know, is always the most difficult.” Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Determined to wrap it up, the House will try next week to pass Biden’s big bill, along with a companion $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. Yet a formal nod of endorsement of Biden’s plan from the party’s Congressional Progressive Caucus late Thursday moved the president one step closer to the support needed for passage in the House. On Capitol Hill, Congress adjourned the night before with fingers pointed, tempers hot and so much at stake for the president and his party. That’s President Joe Biden’s sweeping domestic policy packageas Democratic leaders in Congress try to muscle it into law.įallout was brutal Friday after Biden’s announcement of a $1.75 trillion framework, chiseled back from an initial $3.5 trillion plan, still failed to produce ironclad support from two key holdout senators - West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Arizonan Kyrsten Sinema.
