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President Joe Biden wants the House to vote on his multi-trillion infrastructure and social spending plans next week before he leaves for Europe as Democrats remain divided on key issues like family leave and combatting climate change - while still arguing over how to pay for all of it.
He has told Democrats he wants a legislative victory ahead of the Group of 20 leaders summit in Rome and the United Nations climate summit in Scotland next week, according to Bloomberg News, so he can show his fellow world leaders that America can still deliver.
Biden told a CNN town hall Thursday night he thinks he'll get a deal before he leaves for Europe but he also conceded there are 'four or five issues' still being worked out among warring moderate and liberal Democrats.
But with the clock ticking to the president's deadline, Democrats remain internally divided on key issues proving tricky for leadership to negotiate: paid leave, Medicare expansion, prescription drug pricing and climate.
Democrats are also scrambling to come up with a way to pay for their massive federal spending project after moderate Senator Kyrsten Sinema said she wouldn't support raising corporate tax and income rates.
Joe Biden wants the House to vote on his multi-trillion infrastructure and social spending plans next week before he leaves for Europe
Biden conceded Thursday night he doesn't have the votes to raise taxes. In the evenly divided 50-50 Senate, he needs every Democrat on board.
'I don't think we're going to be able to get the vote,' he said when asked about it at a CNN town hall.
