
Joe Biden aims to ramp up his public sales pitch for sweeping domestic agenda at CNN town hall
CNN
President Joe Biden hopes to use a CNN Town Hall on Thursday to help push his ambitious domestic agenda across the finish line as weeks of mostly private negotiations among Democrats appear to be reaching their conclusion.
The 8 p.m. ET event, held in Baltimore, comes amid an intensifying public push for a reworked vision to expand the social safety net, combat climate change and raise taxes on the wealthy. Biden's public salesmanship of his Build Back Better agenda -- comprised of a $1.5 trillion public works bill and the larger, still-under-negotiation spending plan -- has intensified in recent days as talks near their conclusion.

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