Biden's soft touch with Manchin, Sinema frustrates Democrats
Posted on AllSides October 15th, 2021
From The Center
A growing number of Senate Democrats are getting impatient with President Biden’s kid-glove approach to negotiating with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).
Biden’s approach has involved a lot of facetime and personal attention, but little in the way of public concessions or discernible movement.
After talks on the scale and scope of the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation spending bill stalled in September, Democratic senators expressed hope that Biden’s personal involvement would yield a breakthrough.
Yet after several one-on-one meetings between the president, Manchin and Sinema, Democrats don’t seem any closer to agreeing...
