Building back Biden will make leadership buckle on spending bill price tag, Democrats say

 

The Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package, encompassing the bulk of President Joe Biden's social welfare spending proposals, will likely come to his desk with a significantly reduced price tag, senior Democratic officials say.

Right now, spending concerns raised by centrist Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema have prevented leadership from rapidly sending the measure back to Biden, which under Senate reconciliation rules requires "yea" votes from all 50 members of the caucus, plus Vice President Kamala Harris's tiebreaking vote.

Manchin has repeatedly called for the proposal to cost roughly the same as the $1.2 trillion bipartisan, physical infrastructure package, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not bring to the floor to a vote until the reconciliation package is also ready for a vote. Multiple senior Democratic officials interviewed by the Washington Examiner on Friday predicted leadership would eventually acquiesce to the fiscal demands of the "mod squad." Read More

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