The president held a series of meetings with lawmakers on Wednesday in an attempt to quell the warring progressive and moderate factions in his party.
, Biden’s agenda faces a do-or-die moment on Capitol Hill.
Biden held separate meetings Wednesday with a group of moderate Democrats, as well as a group of progressives. The two ideological wings of the party have been openly sparring over the size of the Build Back Better bill and its included policies. But progressives in the House are threatening to vote against the bipartisan bill until the Senate passes the Build Back Better measure, which includes many liberal priorities such as additional child tax credit payments and funding to fight climate change.
“We voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill with the clear commitment that the two pieces of the package would move together along a dual track. Abandoning the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act and passing the infrastructure bill first would be in violation of that agreement,” the group of senators, led by Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders , said in a statement.
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