In two meetings meant to rally Congressional Democrats behind his stalled agenda last fall, President Biden stunned his allies by blurting out confidential details of a conversation with a key senator and left them scratching their heads with an anecdote about baseball great Satchel Paige, according to a new book. Biden brought together progressives and moderates in the Oval Office on Sept. 22, 2021, to personally try to break the impasse over the separate infrastructure and social spending bills, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns write in “This Will Not Pass.”Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona had expressed skepticism at the price tag of the latter plan, which left-wing Democrats had pegged at up to $3.5 trillion.
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