Biden at CNN town hall: Medicare expansion, free community college likely out of social safety-net package
- Biden participated in a 90-minute town hall broadcast on CNN to field questions on his economic agenda.
- The forum comes at a pivotal moment for Biden, who is working to satisfy progressive and moderate jockeying over the final price tag of the social spending package.
- But time is running out for the president, who is set to travel overseas before the end of the month.
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden said Thursday he believes he’s close to a deal with Democrats on multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure and social spending plans, the centerpiece of his domestic agenda, but confirmed it will require cutting key progressive priorities.
Biden pushed a scaled-down social safety net and climate package during a town hall broadcast on CNN of around $2 trillion, down from an original price tag of $3.5 trillion.