Biden says Democrats will break up Build Back Better spending package
During a press conference on Wednesday, President Biden said that Democrats would try to break up the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan that’s stalled in the Senate in order to try to pass its most important elements.
Video Transcript
- On your comment that you made that you're confident that major chunks of Build Back Better can pass. Are you breaking it up?
- Yes. Well, it's clear to me that we're going to have to probably break it up. I think that we can get-- and I've been talking to a number of my colleagues on the Hill-- I think it's clear that we would be able to get support for the $400 to $500 plus billion for energy and the environmental issues that are there, number one.
Number two, I know that the two people who've opposed on the Democratic side at least support a number of the things that are in there. For example, Joe Manchin strongly supports early education, three-year and four years of age, strongly supports that. There are strong support for I think a number of the way in which to pay for this proposal. So I think there is-- and I'm not going to negotiate against myself as to what should and shouldn't be in it, but I think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now, and come back and fight for the rest of them.
