Biden is threatening to turn around the reverse infrastructure agreement

U.S. President Joe Biden has sided with the threat to refuse to sign a $ 1 million two-party infrastructure deal if it doesn’t go hand in hand with a larger, more comprehensive spending package, with the White House reaching a busy crossover and a two-day party deal.

The change in the path was violent after Republicans on Thursday stressed that the U.S. president had a connection to link the fate of the two pieces of legislation. The initial uprising was emerging as a serious threat agreement it arrived just two days ago and was celebrated by the White House as an important step in approving its economic agenda.

It seemed to me that my comments were giving me a veto threat to the plan I had just agreed upon, which was certainly not my intention.

“After announcing the bilateral agreement at the press conference, I stated that I would refuse to sign the infrastructure bill if they sent me without clean energy plans and other priorities, without clean energy,” Biden said in a statement on Saturday.

“This statement has been understood by some Republicans who do not see the two plans as linked,” he added. “My comments also seemed to me to be a veto threat to the plan I had just agreed upon. That was not my intention.”

Biden’s move to derail highlights the difficult balancing act that the president, White House staff and Capitol Hill allies must take to surpass the rest of the economic proposals, which are worth trillions of dollars in new investments and taxes. increases for wealthy individuals and corporations.

Thursday’s comments were a significant misstep for the president, saying his more than 40 years of experience legislating in Washington is one of his main characteristics.

Initial attempt to link $ 1 million infrastructure deal with Republicans to the passage of a a broader spending bill supported only by Democrats – even rejoiced in progressive parliamentary processes called “reconciliation”. They feared that the political impetus for their priorities would disappear once a bilateral agreement was reached.

But Republicans, including some who said they would approve the infrastructure package, do not want to link it to Biden’s larger spending plans and projected tax increases.

“No agreement has been reached on extortion!” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina tweeted on Saturday. “In these negotiations I have never been suggested by President Biden that the proposal for a bilateral infrastructure be hijacked, unless a liberal reconciliation package is also approved.”

Although Biden, who is spending the weekend at the Camp David Retreat in Maryland, said the two bills would not be matched, he stressed that he would “work hard” to overcome both.

“I ran a winning campaign for the president who promised to fulfill both. No one should be surprised that I’m doing this, ”he said.