Biden in Congress to quell the quarrel among the dem

In an effort to quell the internal Democratic quarrel that is blocking the approval of his economic agenda, Joe Biden went to Congress for a meeting during which he tried to find a compromise between the two souls of the party. “It doesn’t matter when, whether in six minutes, six days or six weeks, we will do this,” the president told reporters after the meeting lasted about 30 minutes. During the closed-door meeting, the president acknowledged that the approval of the $ 1.2 trillion infrastructure plan, already passed in the Senate, “will not pass” in the House until an agreement is reached between moderates and left dem on the more consistent plan, from 3.5 trillion, for social and environmental spending. The moderates, led by Senators Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema whose vote is crucial in the situation of equality between Democrats and Republicans, see this spending as excessive and call for it to be reduced. But liberals are threatening to vote against the infrastructure plan if social spending is touched. “We try to find a way forward,” Biden told Democrats, urging them to find a compromise, according to sources who attended the meeting. “Even a smaller plan would have historic investments,” Biden said, referring to the plan for social spending and therefore urging the left to accept a reduction in the scope of the package in order to obtain the support of the centrists. According to one of the participants, the reduction in the package could be drastic, taking it to 2 trillion. But even that would be more than what moderates who want a 1.5 trillion package are proposing.