Biden meets with vulnerable House Democrats with agenda in limbo
By Scott Wong,Mike Lillis and Cristina Marcos - 10/05/21 02:12 PM EDT President Biden met Tuesday with nearly a dozen vulnerable House Democrats as he and party leaders race to adopt his massive economic agenda before month’s end.
Democrats consider enactment of Biden’s two-piece domestic plan crucial to the party’s chances of keeping control of the lower chamber in next year’s midterm elections — a cycle that’s historically difficult for the party of the incumbent president. And leaders in both chambers are scrambling to unite their clashing factions behind both the bipartisan infrastructure component and a larger, more controversial package of climate and social safety net programs.
Biden, increasingly, is taking the lead in that unification effort. And Tuesday’s virtual meeting with House front-liners — a group deemed most vulnerable — was the second in as many days.
Biden on Monday had convened a group of liberal lawmakers, who have been buoyed by the president’s decision to link the two proposals — a strategy that simultaneously drew howls from moderates who’ve been fighting for weeks to divorce the bills and vote immediately on the Senate-passed infrastructure piece.
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