United States: Joe Biden wants to believe in agreement on his social spending plan cut in half
US President Joe Biden announced Thursday, October 28, 2021, before his departure for Europe, that he had found the framework for an agreement in the ranks of his Democratic Party on his investment plan but the indispensable support of several elected members of Congress to this text was still uncertain.
The amount of this “Build Back Better” plan of social and environmental measures has in fact been reduced by half.
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Decisive day in Washington.
The White House publishes a new version of its social spending plan.
It goes from $ 3.5 trillion to $ 1.7 trillion and some campaign promises are abandoned along the way.
After weeks of bitter negotiations, the president wants to move forward, but he still has to convince.
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With our correspondent in Washington
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Guillaume Naudin
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It's a good day
".
Arriving in Congress to present his new draft social spending plan, cut in half, Joe Biden once again demonstrated his claimed optimism.
It's a good day, but it's also a gamble.
The president would like to fly to Europe, the G20 and the COP26 with a victory to show to his interlocutors, especially on climate issues, which represent the largest part of this new project.
He is now awaiting a vote from the House of Representatives on the other plan, that on infrastructure.
Except that if there is a new framework, a revised project, there is no agreement yet.
For the elected liberal, the left of the Democratic Party, this new project is synonymous with important compromises, and it is difficult to accept.
Above all, there is a framework, but there is no written bill yet.
And since the start of the standoff with the moderates, the centrists of the party, they want to vote for the two texts, infrastructure and social project at the same time.
This is why Barack Obama, the former president, calls on the Democrats to support this agreement.
As is the president of the camber of representatives Nancy Pelosi who asks elected officials not to embarrass Joe Biden.
The President points out that no one, including himself, got everything he wanted, but after months of negotiations, and with his popularity on the decline, he would like to be able to present results.
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