Biden finds wins abroad easier to come by than at home
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Meeting his foreign counterparts behind closed doors in Rome this weekend, President Joe Biden repeatedly recited for them a key figure: $555 billion.
That is the massive sum of money set aside to combat climate change in the sweeping social spending plan he's been trying to get through Congress. In conference rooms and in hallways, Biden wielded the number -- by far the largest amount ever for climate -- to prove to his fellow leaders that America is finally ready to tackle the world's existential problem.
He'd once hoped the money would be approved by the time he arrived in Europe last week for a pair of high-profile international summits -- timing that might also boost Democrat Terry McAuliffe's lagging campaign for governor in Virginia.
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