The President will meet Wednesday with utility CEOs to "discuss the Build Back Better agenda," according to the official White House schedule, which endorses the plan as the largest investment to address climate change in U.S. history — a way to lower energy costs and create union jobs.
But it is not yet clear how that would happen.
With the original legislation from last year dead, no precise details are available about what will be in any future iteration of the bill or how those plans will achieve the Administration's goals. Biden's persistence has drawn the ire of Conservatives.
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"After Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died in 1975, Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update had a recurring joke in which, week after week, anchor Chevy Chase pronounced to the audience that 'Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead,'" said Jenny Beth Martin, honorary chairwoman of Tea Party Patriots Action. "With a nod to SNL, our message to President Biden is that no matter how much you may wish it were still clinging to life, your BBB Act is still dead."
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Manchin effectively killed the Build Back Better Act in December by coming out against it and reiterated earlier this month that "there are no organized conversations going on" regarding the bill. If there were, he said the tax code would have to be changed ahead of anything else and that he wanted bipartisan talks.
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The West Virginia Centrist's stiff opposition prompted some in the media to suggest that the BBB moniker would fade away, and some Democrats are even calling for a rebranding.
"That old name needs to go in the trash can," Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz said last week. "I'm not very good at naming things or slogans, but Joe Manchin has been pretty clear he's not voting for Build Back Better. So we need to work on something else."
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Despite the lack of details and continued rejections, Biden still refers to his agenda using the moniker, as have others within the White House, including press secretary Jen Psaki and first lady Jill Biden.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden has been working on a new suggestion with some elements of the old Build Back Better bill that he assumes Manchin would back. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also says he's persisting in having discussions about it.
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A December statement from Wyden mentioned clean energy incentives tied to carbon emissions reductions, the child tax credit, and allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices as possibilities. However, a Wyden spokesperson said there is no time frame for when a new bill may emerge.
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