He did, however, add that he was "confident we can get pieces, big chunks of the Build Back Better law signed into law," adamant he had not overpromised.
"I think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now, and come back and fight for the rest later," he asserted.
Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin thwarted Biden's spending proposal, a version of which was cleared by the House when he declined to support it last month. Biden then pivoted to voting and election reforms, which were separately shot down by Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who does not endorse changing Senate rules so that lawmakers can deliver the legislation to Biden's desk.
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President Biden opened his press conference with a 10-minute speech, in which he referred to "a year of challenges but also a year of enormous progress.” He particularly spoke of the "frustration and fatigue" regarding the pandemic.
"Some people may call what's happening right now the new normal. I call it a job not yet finished," he stated. "It will get better. We're moving toward a time when COVID-19 won't disrupt our daily lives."
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With the President rounding out his first year in office amid a sinking approval rating and multiple setbacks to his agenda, the White House is planning a new communications strategy, senior administration officials reveal.
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Biden’s reset plan, senior administration officials said, is to make his conversations with members of Congress less of a public priority and to emphasize spending more time communicating directly with Americans. The officials said that the White House will continue negotiations with Congress over Biden’s legislative priorities but that it would stop releasing details of the talks to the public.
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“There is a recognition that we need to change that dynamic,” a senior administration official said, adding that Biden has told aides and lawmakers that he intends to make the shift. Part of the goal is to shed the growing image that Biden is approaching the presidency like a member of the Senate, where he spent more than three decades. “He’s mindful that he doesn’t want to send the message that his role is to be legislator-in-chief,” another senior administration official said.
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Biden’s advisers are looking at a variety of ways for him to engage more with Americans, officials said, but there is no agreement yet about what the alternatives might entail.