Biden's frantic weekend saves infrastructure deal but leaves him on thinner political ice
CNN
That Joe Biden's cherished bipartisan infrastructure plan was nearly destroyed by a few of his own ill-chosen words highlights both the fragility of the deal and his own hopes for a productive domestic presidency.
Biden's extraordinary weekend effort to walk back his own remark on Thursday, interpreted as a threat to veto the bill if it did not arrive at his desk alongside a multi-trillion dollar Democratic spending plan, appears, for now, to have succeeded. Republican senators publicly accepted that his comment linking the two bills -- "If this is the only thing that comes to me, I'm not signing it" -- was a flub. But the President still gave other GOP opponents an opening to portray the two measures as a deceptive two-step.More Related News
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