Senate Democrats will meet on Tuesday for tense talks to try to chart a path forward for Joe Biden’s $1.75tn Build Back Better package, after fellow Democrat Joe Manchin all but torpedoed the president’s economic agenda.
Many lawmakers have already returned to their home states for the Christmas period. But Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, said Democrats in the upper chamber of Congress would hold a “virtual special caucus” call on Tuesday evening — which the Senate majority leader noted would be the “longest night of the year”.
In a letter to colleagues on Monday, Schumer placed the blame