On Capitol Hill, Congress adjourned the night before with fingers pointed, tempers hot and so much at stake for the president and his party. That’s President Joe Biden’s sweeping domestic policy packageas Democratic leaders in Congress try to muscle it into law.įallout was brutal Friday after Biden’s announcement of a $1.75 trillion framework, chiseled back from an initial $3.5 trillion plan, still failed to produce ironclad support from two key holdout senators - West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Arizonan Kyrsten Sinema.
