United States President Joe Biden presented a pared-down version of a legislative initiative he hopes will be a legacy-defining domestic policy overhaul – promising extensive national investments in social welfare and clean energy.Biden spent Thursday morning meeting with legislators from his party on Capitol Hill, before he announced he had the support needed to pass his framework for a $1.75 trillion of social services and climate change programmes, whittled down from an initially proposed $3.5 trillion version.The announcement topped weeks of wrangling with Democratic legislators, with Biden struggling to unify the party’s progressive and centrist wings.
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