“What we’re doing here isn’t easy.”
For months, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been pushing a two-track plan to get President Biden’s domestic spending priorities through Congress, attempting to balance the priorities of both the moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic Party.
The $3.5 trillion budget proposal, primarily written by Sen. Bernie Sanders, and agreed to by Democrats on the Budget Committee which he chairs, will now have its details negotiated by the full Democratic caucus. The initial plan includes provisions that would expand Medicare coverage, institute universal pre-K, fund elder care and establish a Civilian Climate Corps, with some of the funding coming from higher taxes on corporations and Americans making over $400,000.
“Look, there are some in my caucus who might believe it’s too much, there are some in my caucus who believe it’s too little,” Schumer said Wednesday when asked about Manchin’s comments. “The original bill that Senator Sanders put in was $6 trillion, I supported that. I can tell you this, in reconciliation: One, we are going to all come together to get something done, and two, it will have every part of the Biden plan in a big, bold, robust way.
“I know, from talking to both of them, there are concerns about the size and about the various tax increases,”. “Their vote is the whole enchilada. If they want to stop this thing, they can. And I hope they will use that power.” While Biden and the bipartisan group praised the passage Tuesday as a sign that Washington could still get things done, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said that a number of Republicans embraced the bipartisan bill in large part because they knew that the Democrats could pass infrastructure legislation without them.Romney, who was heavily involved in the negotiations, told Politico
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