‘He will vote for this’: Biden confident he can convince Manchin to back spending framework

Published November 2, 2021 8:14pm ET



President Joe Biden stuck to the White House’s script when pressed on whether the self-proclaimed deal-maker can secure support from Democratic holdouts Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema for his scaled-back $1.75 trillion social welfare and climate spending framework.

“He will vote for this,” Biden told reporters Tuesday in Glasgow, Scotland. “I believe that Joe will be there.”

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