The COVID-19 Relief Bill Passed. What's Biden's Next Big Move?
Democrats passed the $1.9 trillion bill on a party-line vote, and Republicans do not appear ready to compromise on infrastructure, voting rights, the minimum wage, immigration or much else.
Now that Democrats have passed President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, all eyes turn to what's next.
But what that is isn't exactly clear.
"I would expect the president's agenda, moving forward, will reflect the Build Back Better agenda that he talked about on the campaign trail," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday. "But the order, the size, the timeline has not yet been determined."
In other words, no one quite knows yet.
There are indications that infrastructure could be the next big push, but there's also voting rights, the minimum wage (which was nixed from the COVID-19 relief bill and important to progressives) and immigration.
And none of it will be easy — and may
