Joe Biden assured Tuesday that he would find common ground with Democratic Senator Joe Manchin who is blocking the adoption of the US president's social and environmental reform plan in Congress.
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“I think there is always a possibility to get 'Build Back Better' adopted,”
the White House host said at a press conference.
"Senator (Joe) Manchin and I are going to come up with something,"
he added. The West Virginia senator said Sunday that he would not give his voice, decisive, to the plan "Build Back Better", "Build back better", Joe Biden. This is $ 1.750 billion in spending that should make America triumph in the face of climate change and competition from China. At the domestic level, this program plans to lower the cost of childcare and drugs, as well as significant investments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"We will find a way"
In November, the plan was adopted in the House of Representatives, where Democrats had overcome internal differences between centrists - worried about the effect on the debt - and the left wing, which wanted to go further in the expenses.
But its adoption was rejected in the Senate, which has 50 elected for each camp.
Any Democrat or affiliate therefore has, in effect, what is akin to vetoing bills if Republicans close ranks.
"The fight for '' Build Back Better '' is too important to abandon it, we will find a way to move forward next year
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White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki assured Monday, without giving more details.
The leader of the Senate Democrats, Chuck Schumer, had promised that an
“amended version”
of the big bill would be voted on.
"We will continue to vote until we have something,"
he insisted.
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