Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The Senate is in recess this week, while the House has committee work and will vote on the Senate-passed debt limit measure.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday aired his frustration with moderate Democrats, arguing they should be more specific about what they want in a fight over a sweeping social spending plan.
mitch mcconnell is offering up a short term deal, but it s more of a maneuvering. the senate republicans position i find to be hypocritical, danger and you say a bit disgraceful. the second option, democrats do something they don t want to do and use the budget process known as reconciliation to raise the debt limit. that s the same procedure they re using with that social spending and climate bill on the table. democrats could do this on their own unilaterally but they don t want to because they say it s too time consuming, too risky, they have to revise the social spending bill, et cetera. option 3, democrats could change the rule and carve out an exception in the filibuster. in plain english, they could vote to tweak the usual procedure a little bit to raise the debt limit on their own. reporter: what s the likelihood of making a change in
week to try to sell his plans to the american people. david spunt is live at the white house with more. reporter: hi, or jon. the white house announced just a few hours ago president biden will travel to howell, michigan, just between detroit and lansing on tuesday. this is a way to sell both plans, two plans that price out into the trillions. now, when president biden was vice president, his former boss, president barack obama, received a lot of criticism and his team for criticized for not semiing the economic stimulus under their watch to the american people effectively. the biden team promised they would sell better and make sure americans actually understand the pros of what this president is doing. but that was 2009, jon. this is 2021. congress is deadlocked more than ever. democrats barely have a majority in both the house and senate, and they aren t fighting only with republicans, but with themselves. the house progressives want a $3.5 trillion, with a t, social spending bill