House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will keep seeking to send President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislation to his desk.
“I’m never giving up on BBB,” the California Democrat said at a press conference.
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The $2.4 trillion social spending legislation, which includes key portions of the president’s domestic agenda, was passed by the House last year but is stalled in the Senate. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat, raised objections to the size and scope of the bill and his concerns about increasing inflation, saying in December that he would not vote in favor of the legislation.
Manchin reiterated his opposition this week, telling reporters the bill is “dead.”
Democrats have a razor-thin 50-50 majority, dependent on Vice President Kamala Harris’s tiebreaking vote in her role as president of the Senate. No Republicans are expected to vote for the bill, so Senate Democrats cannot pass it without winning Manchin’s support.
Pelosi appeared undeterred by the Senate roadblock. “There’s so much in there that’s really important,” she said, including the child tax credit and provisions to address climate change.
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Pelosi argued the bill would lower rather than increase inflation.
“It’s about lowering costs for the American people,” Pelosi said.
