Postal reform and legislation to overhaul how workplace sexual assault and harassment claims are handled are also on the move. There’s the China competition legislation and election reform bills. There’s a looming Supreme Court nomination and progress toward a full-year spending agreement. There’s a good reason for the White House taking a clear step back, beyond the obvious vote-count issues – there’s a whole lot of other things moving on Capitol Hill. And our staff and senior members of the team are engaged in those as well.” The White House legislative affairs team is looped in, people familiar with the matter told CNN, but it is not the focal point of their day-to-day, one official said.Ī lot of the current conversations, Psaki noted, “are happening between members on the Hill to determine what they can have support for. “These discussions are ongoing,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday. Manchin isn’t re-engaged with the White House on the issue, though he has had conversations with other senators. There is no official negotiating track, or central clearinghouse for the conversations, aides said. The conversations about the future of Build Back Better are primarily taking place on Capitol Hill. Quietly, Biden and Democratic leaders are eying the best time to launch the effort.Īs Democratic official involved in the process put it in a text message: “Timing. Its exact contents and pathway to passage remain opaque and, for whatever it’s worth, it appears likely to carry a different name.
It will most certainly be scaled back thanks to Manchin. But they are not done with the Build Back Better Act. To be clear, this isn’t the timeline Democrats envisioned.
Just don’t expect it to be readily apparent, despite Biden’s events this week, any time soon. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who imploded the effort in December, still refers to the package – repeatedly – as “dead.”ĭemocrats, even as they are reticent to set timelines and wary of pushing the intra-party war back into the public sphere, stress there is a plan. There are no official negotiations under way. There is no clear timeline for its passage. President Joe Biden on Thursday will spend the second straight day focused on components of the $1.75 trillion economic and climate package that serves as the cornerstone of his domestic agenda.īut as Biden is set to travel to Virginia to talk about the Build Back Better Act, a constant refrain has pinged back and forth from Capitol Hill to K Street: Why?
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