“President Biden walked back comments tying the fate of a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure agreement to a separate, Democratic effort to pass a broad antipoverty plan, recommitting to the bipartisan deal after Republicans threatened to withdraw their support,” the Wall Street Journal report.
Biden said that his earlier comments “created the impression that I was issuing a veto threat” on his proposal, “which was certainly not my intent.”
Said Biden: “The bottom line is this: I gave my word to support the Infrastructure Plan, and that’s what I intend to do. I intend to pursue the passage of that plan, which Democrats and Republicans agreed to on Thursday, with vigor.”
Washington Post: Biden reverses himself on Infrastructure, says he would sign bipartisan deal.
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