In a letter to House Democrats on Wednesday, Pelosi appeared to acknowledge the House and Senate will have to hash out more differences before Biden can sign a bill. The senator was the driving force behind the party cutting its legislative price tag in half and removing a key clean-energy program. Manchin responded to Pelosi on Wednesday, saying the inclusion of paid leave is "very much of a challenge" for him. Opposition from Manchin originally forced Democrats to scrap the key legislative priority from the framework. Pelosi said Democrats would add four weeks of paid leave back to the bill. Until now, House Democrats have tailored their bill to meet the demands of both Manchin and Sinema, on the assumption that approving a bill in the House that could not pass the Senate would be an exercise in futility and a dangerous political gamble.īut on Wednesday, Pelosi acknowledged that there will be provisions in the House version of the bill that do not have Manchin and Sinema's approval. There were also fresh questions Wednesday about whether the bill House Democrats eventually pass will be one that bears a stamp of approval of the two Senate swing votes, centrist Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. The House Rules Committee planned to meet Wednesday afternoon to consider the latest draft of the safety net and climate bill, but it was unclear if the committee would be finished with its assessment by the end of the day. Though they have come close to finalizing their economic agenda, Democrats still have to push past several obstacles to enact the sprawling social safety net expansion and the refresh of transportation and utility systems that they promised voters. The clashing stances marked a role reversal for these two flanks of the Democratic Party.
But as progressives urged swift passage of their party's economic plans, some Democratic centrists called for a pause on voting for the crown jewel of Biden's agenda: a $1.75 trillion social and climate spending package.
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