Democrats are immersed in paring down a safety net and climate package initially pegged at roughly $3.5 trillion to an amount centrists can support
WASHINGTON—Democrats still tussling over how to scale back their ambitions to expand the country’s safety net and overhaul its climate-change policy face dwindling time to reach an agreement as both the House and Senate return to Washington this week.
One major element related to climate change—a $150 billion program aimed at pushing utilities to draw more power from —could be cut from the bill, according to people familiar with the negotiations, as it has drawn objections from the centrist Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
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