He hosted separate group sessions with moderate and progressive members on Tuesday and met one-on-one with Manchin and Sinema, who are withholding their support for the social-spending and tax-increase legislation the House drafted.
National Guard?
Biden promoted the potential benefits of the legislation during a trip to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Wednesday and again made the case for it in a speech on racial justice earlier Thursday.
Biden told lawmakers he needs a legislative victory before he departs for the Group of 20 leaders summit in Rome and the United Nations climate summit in Scotland, to show world leaders that American democracy can still deliver.
On another subject, Biden acknowledged that the U.S. has “a significant supply-chain problem” and said he would consider deploying the National Guard to drive trucks in order to more quickly get goods out of ports “if we can’t increase the number of truckers, which we’re in the process of doing.”
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