President Biden sat down with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday to discuss the administration’s proposed $4 trillion spending package, which the moderate-minded lawmaker has floated busting up.
Manchin said Biden didn’t take a position on if the proposal should be passed as one piece as opposed to two or more as some Democrats are pushing for, but indicated the issue came up as part of their sit-down at the White House.
“We talked about basically, are we going to do one, or do two or do three, things of that sort. Making sure we look at things that need to be done in traditional and human infrastructure, things of that sort,” the senator told reporters at the Capitol after the meeting.
But asked if Biden expressed a preference on passing his plan as one bill or breaking it up, Manchin replied, “Not really.”
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