Sept. 21, 2021: Double trouble for Biden

Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 10:05 a.m.

b'Internal Democratic discord has wounded President Joe Biden\\u2019s massive social spending plan, raising the prospect that the package could stall out, shrink dramatically \\u2014 or even fail altogether.\\n\\nMyriad problems have arisen. Moderate Senate Democrats Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) continue to be a major headache for party leadership\\u2019s $3.5 trillion target. The Senate parliamentarian just nixed the party\\u2019s yearslong push to enact broad immigration reform. House members may tank the prescription drugs overhaul the party has run on for years. And a fight continues to brew over Sen. Bernie Sanders\\u2019 (I-Vt.) push to expand Medicare.\\n\\nAnd today, Biden interrupts his mission to rescue his agenda in Congress with a mission to rescue his agenda with world leaders. \\n\\nHe\\u2019ll speak at 10 a.m. before the U.N. General Assembly to an audience far more skeptical about his insistence that \\u201cAmerica is back\\u201d than they were in the afterglow of Donald Trumps loss, which was (mostly) celebrated around the world.'