Democrats struggle to save Biden $3.5T bill, no deal struck

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during her play property briefing connected Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Posted at 10:22 PM, Sep 30, 2021

and past updated 2021-09-30 23:22:18-04

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a agelong nighttime of frantic negotiations, Democrats are inactive struggling to scope a woody connected President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion authorities overhaul.

Late-night votes person been called off, with enactment to resume Friday.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi had pushed the House into an evening league arsenic the Democratic leaders worked to negociate a scaled-back program centrist holdouts would accept.

But it appeared nary contiguous woody was wrong scope aft hours of apical White House aides shuttling crossed the Capitol betwixt the offices of Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.

Manchin held accelerated to his declaration that helium was consenting to conscionable the president little than halfway, and late-night votes were called off.

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