Biden’s calls for unity and jeopardize future attempts at negotiations.īut White House officials said on Thursday that Democrats could move quickly without sacrificing bipartisanship. Biden has said repeatedly that he will work with Republicans to craft a bill that could earn bipartisan support, and moderate Republicans have warned that cutting their party out of the process would undermine Mr. Biden could get the votes for it even if it were, as some Democrats believe, eligible for inclusion.

Biden would be forced by parliamentary rules to drop his call for a $15-an-hour minimum wage if the bill circumvented the filibuster via the so-called budget reconciliation process, though it is unclear whether Mr. Some moderate lawmakers have also pushed the administration to justify the need for nearly $2 trillion in additional relief, warning that money already approved by Congress in previous rounds of aid - including in the $900 billion package passed in December - has not yet been spent. Ossoff declined to comment on the call because it was private. Biden’s National Economic Council, Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia pushed for the party to go forward with a sweeping package that included another round of stimulus checks, arguing that the issue helped Democrats win both of the state’s Senate seats and clinch the majority, according to two people familiar with the comments. On a private caucus call with Senate Democrats and Brian Deese, the director of Mr.

“We want it to be bipartisan always, but we can’t surrender if they are not going to be doing that,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said at a news conference on Capitol Hill.

Trump, which is set to begin the week of Feb. Biden can sign his so-called American Rescue Plan into law by mid-March at the latest, even with the competing demands of a Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Behind closed doors, congressional committees are already working to turn Mr. On a day when new Commerce Department data showed that the economic recovery slowed down at the end of last year, Democratic leaders in Congress and administration officials said on Thursday that they would start a process next week that would allow the measure to pass with only Democratic votes. WASHINGTON - Democrats are preparing to bypass Republican objections to speed President Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic aid package through Congress, even as administration officials and congressional moderates hold out hopes of passing a bill with bipartisan support.

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