Biden makes last-minute push for economic agenda before heading overseas
ABC News
President Joe Biden on Thursday was making a last-minute push for agenda before heading overseas.
In a last-minute push before heading overseas, and after months of torturous negotiations, President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a "framework" of his economic plan in an effort to get all Democrats behind his social spending and climate policy agenda.
"No one got everything they wanted, including me, but that's what compromise is. That's consensus. And that's what I ran on," Biden said in remarks from the White House East Room.
Before taking the world stage, Biden put public pressure on members of his own party, especially House progressives, to come together to support what he pitched as a "fundamental gamechanger," laying out the details of the $1.75 trillion social spending package Biden presented to House Democrats earlier Thursday morning.
"I ran for president saying it was time to reduce the burden on the middle class to rebuild the backbone of this nation working people in the middle class. It couldn't have been any clearer -- the very moment I announced my candidacy. That's why I wrote these bills in the first place and took them to the people," Biden said, using the presidential bully pulpit.