President Biden's meeting with GOP leaders features high stakes and low expectations.
a pair of core campaign pledges: to work across party lines — and to advance what he’s called the most progressive governing blueprint since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s.
The White House insists that this week's meetings — Wednesday's with the bicameral leadership of Congress, and Thursday's with the lead Senate Republican negotiators — demonstrate Biden's commitment to seek compromise across the aisle, and represent just a fraction of the behind-the-scenes talks it expects to continue for weeks.
When he was asked during the campaign whether bipartisanship was possible, Biden often pointed to his high-profile instances of collaboration with McConnell when he was vice president, such as breaking an impasse during the 2012 fiscal cliff negotiations and earning McConnell's support later for cancer funding. Biden said again last week that he is confident that he and his longtime Senate colleague can work together despite the rhetoric.
"Until it's clear that they don't have the votes on their side for some of these priorities, they're not going to need to really collaborate with us," the person said."Going with a more moderate approach is not their first priority.
White House officials counter that the administration has been actively seeking GOP input since Biden took office, including holding scores of direct conversations between senior officials and Hill counterparts or lawmakers themselves.
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