This Week in DC
President Joe Biden will personally appeal this week to the key senator holding up the administration’s massive spending package, and the long-awaited nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration gets a hearing in the Senate.
Biden’s hopes of getting the Senate to pass the Build Back Better bill before Christmas suffered a fresh blow Friday when there was more bad news for Biden on the inflation front: According to the Consumer Price Index for November, prices have risen by 6.8% over the past year, the highest rate for a 12-month period since 1982. Higher grocery prices, which have risen 6.4% over the past year, are helping fuel inflation.
Biden meets early this week with Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who has repeatedly said he’s concerned that the roughly $2 trillion spending bill could worsen inflation. Without Manchin’s support, the bill can’t pass the 50-50 Senate.
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Biden’s hopes of getting the Senate to pass the Build Back Better bill before Christmas suffered a fresh blow Friday when there was more bad news for Biden on the inflation front: According to the Consumer Price Index for November, prices have risen by 6.8% over the past year, the highest rate for a 12-month period since 1982. Higher grocery prices, which have risen 6.4% over the past year, are helping fuel inflation.
Biden meets early this week with Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who has repeatedly said he’s concerned that the roughly $2 trillion spending bill could worsen inflation. Without Manchin’s support, the bill can’t pass the 50-50 Senate.
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