President Joe Biden has unveiled a framework for legislation he hoped would unite the Democratic Party — but which quickly became snarled in the same intraparty fights that have held Democrats back from passing a spending plan for months.

Biden on Thursday touted the proposal as a “historic economic framework” behind which he was confident the centrist and progressive wings of his party would line up before he left for Europe later in the day.

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