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Joe Biden meets House Democrats on Capitol Hill on Friday, as the US President tries to salvage his anti-Democratic sentiment.
“In the evening, the President met with the House Democratic Caucus over his policies,” the White House said in a bid to change Biden’s actions.
Nancy Pelosi, President of Parliament, suspension a make-and-run vote in Congress’s lower chamber at the end of Thursday night after several days of full discussion with progressive and minority party members.
Biden lawmakers are divided into two pillars of the presidential decree: a $ 1.2tn bipartisan construction package and a $ 3.5tn package to fix the U.S. safety net, which is opposed by Republicans and should pass through both congressional chambers and democratic elections only.
Biden has challenged his leadership on both sides of the bill, and Democrats in Washington are already worried that failure to implement the law could hurt the Presidential party in a run-off election in Virginia next month, and next year’s general elections, with both Congress seats. to be ready.
Democrats at the House have said they will not sign economic reforms – which will use public funds, especially on roads, bridges, roads, and roadblocks – until they receive assurances that a major bill will not be passed in Parliament.
But the promises appeared to be far from Thursday night because of the rejection of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, two of the country’s most democratically elected leaders. All of them had power in the upper chamber of Congress divided 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, with vice president Kamala Harris voting.
Manchin, who represents West Virginia, revealed Thursday that he had told Democratic leaders he did not want to fund more than $ 1.5tn, while a Movie spokesman said the Arizona senator was also opposed to the $ 3.5tn price tag.
Top White House top executives met Manchin and Cinema at a nightclub in the Capitol on Thursday. But the Cinema office said Friday that the senator had returned to Phoenix, adding that he had continued talks with the “White House”.
Pelosi continued to express optimism on Friday, insisting that the House of Representatives on construction was imminent. The speaker, highly respected in Washington for being able to negotiate and form a coalition in his party, has repeatedly said he will not vote until he is determined to win.
Hakeem Jeffries, a member of the Pelosi ruling party, told reporters on Friday that he hoped the vote would be held – and that the bill would go – “today”.
But some doubted it. Pramila Jayapal, the Democratic Congress who sits in the House of Representatives, told reporters Friday morning that her view has not changed: she will not support the construction package until budget is paid.
Internal factions are divided over Biden’s legal case while the Democratic Party faces problems arising from debt restitution. Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the Senate remain vigilant in their efforts to raise debt, while Republicans are reluctant to sign off on debt relief and Democrats say using complex laws to reconcile them unilaterally could also be dangerous.
Janet Yellen, the US Treasury Secretary, has warned that the government will be put at risk by October 18 if the lending deadline is not lifted. Advertisers showed signs nervous about what could happen for the first time on Friday, losing out on short-term loans that are growing in the coming weeks.