Biden spending bill to likely slip in Senate after House delays
By Jordain Carney - 11/14/21 10:44 AM EST
The Senate's debate over President Biden's social and climate spending bill appears likely to slip, after the House failed to send the bill over before the Veterans Day recess.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) had hoped to start debate on the Build Back Better legislation this week but instead, in a letter sent to the Senate Democratic caucus on Sunday, said that the Senate is "likely" to take up the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a massive defense policy bill, instead.
"Due to the House pushing back consideration of the BBBA to the week of November 15th, it is likely that the Senate considers the NDAA this upcoming week as we await House passage of the BBBA," Schumer wrote in the letter referring to the Build Back Better Act (BBBA).
Though the defense bill passed out of committee over the summer, when it could come the Senate floor has been in limbo as Democrats tried to figure out the timing of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which passed the Senate in August, and the social and climate spending bill.
The defense bill typically passes by a wide, bipartisan margin but it's a magnet for hundreds of potential changes and can take roughly two weeks to get the bill on to the floor and to a final vote.
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