According to reports, Biden’s social spending plan seeks to increase spending on healthcare, caring for children and the elderly, improving education, among others.
US President Joe Biden on Sunday rushed negotiations with the moderate wing of the Democrats to try to carry out his social spending plan, after reducing its cost from 3.5 to 2 trillion dollars in ten years, before go on a trip to the G20 meeting in Rome.
Biden received at his residence in Wilmington (Delaware), where he spends the weekend, Senator Joe Manchin, representative of the moderate Democratic wing, and the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, according to the White House.
For her part, in Washington, the president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, remarked that in an interview on CNN the agreement “is almost reached” and that today’s meeting in Delaware will focus “on some specific points that they need to be finalized ”.
The White House hopes that Congress can vote on the $ 2 trillion social spending plan, one of the president’s top priorities, before he leaves on a trip at the end of the week to participate in the G20 leaders’ summit in Rome. .
Biden’s social spending plan seeks to increase spending on health, care for children and the elderly, improve education and face the climate crisis, among other issues, although the proposed reduction in its cost implies that it will be less ambitious than what promised.
The progressives demanded a more voluminous plan, while the moderates considered it excessive.
If he manages to reconcile the progressive and moderate wings of his party, Biden could finally carry out that social reform in the Senate through a legislative formula known as reconciliation, which allows a bill to be passed with a simple majority of 50 votes, just those that Democrats have. (I)
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