{"id":783528,"date":"2021-09-17T14:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=783528"},"modified":"2021-09-17T14:46:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:46:53","slug":"biden-pelosi-and-schumer-discuss-next-steps-in-advancing-democrats-legislative-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-pelosi-and-schumer-discuss-next-steps-in-advancing-democrats-legislative-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer Discuss Next Steps in Advancing Democrats\u2019 Legislative Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-pelosi-and-schumer-discuss-next-steps-in-advancing-democrats-legislative-agenda%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=783528&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden met with Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Chuck Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday\u00a0about advancing what Democrats are calling their Build Back Better Agenda, including the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package which expands the federal government and the smaller $1.9 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said the three had a \u201cpositive discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe three discussed their ongoing coordination and outreach around making the case for building an economy that delivers for the middle class, and those seeking to get there, and not just those at the top by passing an historic tax cut for middle-class families and small businesses while cutting the costs of prescription drugs, care for children and older Americans, education, housing, and healthcare while tackling the climate crisis,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/09\/16\/readout-of-the-presidents-conversation-with-speaker-pelosi-and-leader-schumer\/\">the White House said<\/a> in a readout of the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also reaffirmed that, as we act at this crucial moment to ensure working families are dealt back into our economy, it is only fair that we pay for these tax cuts and investments by repealing the Trump tax giveaways to the wealthiest Americans and big corporations, who often pay little to nothing in taxes,\u201d the readout said.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi joined the two virtually from England where she traveled this week to participate in the G7 Heads of Parliament Conference, which began Friday, in Chorley, England.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Pelosi also spoke to students at Cambridge University on Thursday and told them that while the bipartisan infrastructure bill negotiated by Biden with a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators is good, it does not get to the heart of their agenda, which is economic and climate \u201cjustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s a triumph for the President that he got a bipartisan bill, but we have to have much more on climate and the reconciliation bill, or else in my view, we would be in dereliction of duty, to not be thinking of how you build back better,\u201d said Pelosi. \u201cSo, again, as I said in my opening remarks. So much of what we do has to be about justice. And with these bills, it\u2019s about economic and environmental justice so we\u2019re very excited about it so that\u2019s what I\u2019m on the phone living with all night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi told the students her committee leaders were given a short timeline to have their portions of the budget reconciliation package written and ready for advancing and they have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019ve met our goal. Our goal was by September 15 to have our bills written, and they are, and now we just have to reconcile with the Senate, because, they have different rules, and we hope to be on schedule for it all.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3999812\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1340590576-1-1200x801-1.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3999812 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1340590576-1-1200x801-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden speaks during an event with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (L) and United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Sept. 15, 2021. (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Biden and Schumer joined Pelosi by phone while Pelosi was overseas meeting with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>The White House readout also said the three discussed passing a continuing resolution to fund the government before funding runs out at the end of September as well as actions that can be taken to raise the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has urged Congress to raise the debt ceiling in a bipartisan effort, but Republican leader Senator Mitch McConnell says they will not help Democrats spend money the U.S. does not have, especially since Americans are already feeling the effects of inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, Republicans won\u2019t have any input into the massive, reckless taxing and spending spree that will stick middle-class families with higher costs, lower wages, and a socialist country they didn\u2019t vote for,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcconnell.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/pressreleases?ID=3321E2A5-9CBD-4CD4-819C-6C7C178137E9\">McConnell said of<\/a> the Democrats\u2019 $3.5 trillion budget bill. \u201cBut Democrats do want Republicans\u2019 help with one thing. They want us to help raise their credit limit to make it happen! They want us to help clear the path for their partisan, job-killing agenda which we oppose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say, \u201cLet\u2019s be clear. The debt suspension that just expired in August automatically covered the borrowing that had accumulated before that date. This is a discussion about the future. This isn\u2019t the last four years when we were reaching bipartisan government funding agreements, bipartisan appropriations, and bipartisan COVID bills. Democrats are making different choices. They want to make policy all by themselves. So, they can come up with the financing on their own as well,\u201d McConnell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democratic leaders have every tool and procedure they need to handle the debt limit on a partisan basis, just like they are choosing to handle everything else,\u201d McConnell concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Democrats say it is both party\u2019s responsibility and that over $5 trillion of that debt was added under former president Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are bipartisan responsibilities, especially given that a substantial debt was run up during the previous administration in pursuit of COVID relief and other measures, that received bipartisan support,\u201d the administration said, according to the readout. \u201cAny suggestion by Republicans that they will shirk their responsibility is indefensible.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WEB_MasoomaZia1.jpg\" alt=\"Masooma Haq\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Masooma Haq<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden met with Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Chuck Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday\u00a0about advancing what Democrats are calling their Build Back Better Agenda, including &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}