Joe Biden announced a framework agreement with Democratic leaders on his US economic agenda, in an effort to stoke political momentum for his $1.75tn package after weeks of fraught negotiations.
The president unveiled details of the proposed deal during a meeting with Democrats from the House of Representatives on Thursday morning, then spoke about it from the White House before flying to Europe for the G20 summit in Rome and the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.
“We spent hours and hours and hours over months and months working on this. No one got everything they wanted, including me,” Biden said. “But that’s what compromise is. That’s consensus. And that’s what I ran on.”