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Biden went to the Hill to save the Agenda

One step forward, one step back. Congress held successive votes yesterday to avert government shutdown with limited GOP support. However, In addition to this critical vote, another one should take place in-house on the cross-party infrastructure law that the Senate passed in August.

The spokeswoman Nancy Pelosi had scheduled a vote on the road and bridge legislation for Thursday, but it did not materialize. The delay in passing the bill and submitting it to President Biden is the result of progressives – calling for the center Democrats to stand by their word and pass most of Biden’s agenda that was left out in the Infrastructure Act in order to achieve a bipartisan victory in Congress.

The progressives fear that if they let the infrastructure bill through, the moderates will drag their feet while lobbyists cut votes to kill the huge spending package that would fight climate change and expand the US safety net. Although the big companies like these measures, they don’t like how they get paid, Closing tax loopholes and increasing taxes for businesses and the wealthy.

President Biden met with members of his party to iron out resistance, mainly from two Democratic senators. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, by phone and with meetings at the White House. On Friday, however He decided to take on an even more active role when he went to Capitol Hill to speak to lawmakers in the hope that he can save his agenda contained in both bills.