President Biden
Joe BidenManchin throws cold water on budget reconciliation Use moderate GOP senators and Biden clash at the start of infrastructure debate Omar proposes Biden administration as he ‘continues to build Trump’s xenophobic and racist wall’The attempt to gain dual support for its $ 2.25 infrastructure package begins in a rocky way.
Sen. Chris Coons
Chris Andrew Coons On The Money: Biden says compromise ‘inevitable’ over infrastructure plan | Opportunity for dual breakthrough? | Democrats weaken tax increases Coons say a dual infrastructure package is likely to be smaller, not fully funded. Biden says ‘inevitable’ compromise on infrastructure plan MORE (D-Del.), A close ally of Biden, says there will only be one month available to reach an agreement with the Republicans, and that is nowhere to be found at the moment.
Biden is already dealing with important moderates like Sen. Susan Collins
Susan Margaret Collins Moderate IDP senators and Biden clash at start of infrastructure debate The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden, McConnell agrees on vaccines, clash over infrastructure 2024 GOP hope in White House leads opposition to Biden cabinet MORE (R-Maine).
And potential Republican partners like Sens. Rob Portman
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It’s not clear how much Biden really focuses on winning GOP support.
In the Senate, Democrats are expected to use budget rules that allow them to move the package without Republican votes. Under the budget conciliation rules, the Senate subsidiary can be avoided.
This is how Biden quickly approved the $ 1.9 billion COVID-19 lighting package without any GOP support.
The White House also expressed the idea that if the infrastructure package has Republican support in polls, it can be described as twofold, even if the GOP’s legislators do not.
Republicans say they can see the writing on the wall.
“Clearly, Biden’s government is seeking to immediately put points on the board and create momentum and a sense of inevitability regarding its legitimate achievements,” said Ron Bonjean, a GOP strategist and former leadership. said. “The only way to do that in this kind of atmosphere is to track through the reconciliation process and Republicans.”
“Consensus-driven legislation is going to take time,” he added. ‘Biden currently has very strong credibility with the American people. His mood is very high. He does not feel the need at this point to create space for Republicans because it does not affect his position nationwide.
“We will probably see such a pattern in the future,” he predicted.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell Moderate IDP senators and Biden clash at the start of infrastructure debate Incitement: modernizing the standard The memorandum: Boehner’s explosions no longer move the IDP of today (R-Ky.) Predicts that Biden’s Build Back Better plan will receive no support for IDPs, a view shared by senior assistants to other IDP senators.
This puts the spotlight on Sen. Joe Manchin
Joe ManchinManchin throws cold water on budget reconciliation use over money: Biden says compromise ‘inevitable’ over infrastructure plan | Opportunity for dual breakthrough? | Democrats weaken tax increases Coons say a dual infrastructure package is likely to be smaller and no longer funded. (W.Va.), the most important swinging voice in the Democratic caucus.
Democrats will have to win Manchin’s support if they want to move legislation through the Senate without GOP support, as they will then not be able to afford to lose a single Democratic vote.
Manchin, published by The Washington Post on Wednesday, expressed concern about plans to move Biden’s infrastructure agenda through the budget reconciliation process, urging his party to work with the IDP.
“We must all be concerned about how the budget reconciliation process is being used by both parties to stifle the debate on the key issues facing our country,” he wrote.
Senate Democratic assistants and strategists concede that Biden’s infrastructure plan will not garner Republican votes. But they say it is important that he make a public effort to reach out to Republicans so that Manchin and other moderates have political coverage to vote for a biased bill.
“Schumer can then say we can work in a twofold way, but it’s Republicans who do not want to,” said one Democratic assistant, referring to the Senate majority leader. Charles Schumer
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“It would be great [to get] did something in a dual way, ‘the assistant added, but it has become clear to many Democratic senators that the chance of passing a dual infrastructure bill is about zero after not a single Republican in any room for the COVID voted for the relief plan.
Democrats say they can bolster their argument against Manchin and other moderates on the fence by other bills with broad public support, such as legislation that would bring the background checks on gun sales or the improvement of U.S. competitiveness with China to the Senate floor.
Even those popular bills have an uncertain prospect of choosing the ten Republican votes needed to get a filibuster. If they do not get enough IDP support to succeed, it will reinforce Schumer’s argument that Democrats need to reconcile Biden’s infrastructure plan with a simple majority vote and accept it under budget reconciliation, say assistants and strategists.
“There is nothing that gets enough Republicans and Democrats to pass on these big questions,” a Senate Democratic strategist said. A bill addressing China’s growing threat is likely to have the best chance of getting 60 votes in the Senate, though that legislation has yet to be made.
The strategist added that Biden does not need his infrastructure proposal to please Republicans because his approval numbers remain strong and polls show strong support for a major infrastructure initiative.
‘The calculation that Republicans will have to start making looks at Biden’s poll numbers. It seems that their attacks do not stay put. “It doesn’t look like they are resonating outside of Fox News,” said the strategist.
Biden received a 61% approval rating in a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research published last week. A Reuters Ipsos poll among 1,005 Americans conducted on April 7 and April 8 showed that Biden has an approval rate of 56 percent.
A Hill-HarrisX poll last month found that 54 percent of registered voters think infrastructure should be a priority, and a CNN poll last month found that 61 percent of Americans bid $ 1 for Biden’s U.S. rescue plan. , 9 billion support.
Strong poll numbers appear to have encouraged Biden in his interactions with Republicans, and GOP senators do not appreciate that.
The president and a group of moderate Republicans opened fire on Wednesday when Biden criticized the GOP senators for digging into their heels during the pandemic negotiations earlier this year.
‘I would be willing to compromise, but they did not. They did not move an inch. Not an inch, ‘he told reporters.
This provoked a disciplinary response from the ten senators who met with him in the White House on 1 February to investigate the possibility of a compromise on the COVID-19 relief.
“The administration has fully dismissed our attempt as insufficient to justify its own strategy,” they shot back in a joint statement signed by Sens. Portman, Capito, Collins, Lisa Murkowski
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Coons, a close ally of Biden, says the president will give Republicans until the end of May to agree to a dual infrastructure deal and then move forward, with or without it.
“I believe President Biden can spend the next month negotiating the possibility,” Coons told Punchbowl News.
If there is no agreement by June, Coons said “Democrats are just rolling it up in a big package and moving it.”
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