Biden's agenda faces critical week as Democrats look for social spending deal

Sen. Joe Manchin said Monday he's optimistic that Democrats could reach a framework agreement on a social spending package before Biden jets off to Glasgow.

As talks on President Joe Biden's economic agenda hit a critical point this week, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Monday that he's optimistic Democrats could reach a framework agreement on a social spending package before Biden jets off on Thursday.

"Having it finished with all the t's and i's and everything crossed and dotted, that will be difficult from the Senate side because we have an awful lot of text to go through," Manchin said. "But as far as conceptually we should. I really believe that. I think a framework should be, it really should be."

Manchin, who, along with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., has raised objections to Biden's original $3.5 trillion social spending proposal, met with the president and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer over breakfast Sunday afternoon.

"It went well,” Biden said Monday. “Few more things to work out but it went well.”