Chuck Sumer: Democrats will not abandon the big social bill

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Sumer said yesterday that Democrats would not abandon the big social bill (Build Back Better) in 2022, according to the online political news newspaper The Hill.

Sumer’s statement came a day after Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said he would not vote on the BBB bill, which is a cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s domestic political agenda.

In a letter to members of the Democratic caucus in the Senate, Sumer announced that the said legislature “will discuss the BBB bill very early in the new year, so that every member of the Democratic caucus has the opportunity to make public his views, in the plenary of the Senate and not only on television “.

As he wrote, the US House of Representatives will have a vote on a revised version of the BBB bill passed by the House of Representatives and will continue “the vote until a major development is initiated” regarding the passage of the said historic bill. size of social spending, but also for climate spending.

“Neither this delay nor any other recent decisions will prevent us from continuing to look for a way forward,” Sumer wrote, referring to Mancin’s opposition to the same bill.

Mancin’s negative stance essentially torpedoed the Democrats’ efforts in the Senate to pass the BBB bill during the current term.

“We just can not give up. We must and will continue to fight to provide benefits to working families,” he added.

Mancin, a moderate Democrat, caused a political uproar on Sunday when he announced, after months of negotiations between himself and the White House and fellow senators in the Capitol, that he would not endorse the $ 2 trillion bill. promoted by President Biden.

“I can not vote to continue this bill. I just can not. I tried in every possible human way. I can not get there,” Mancin said on a Fox News Sunday televised address. .

“This is a no to this bill,” he added.

SOURCE: AMPE