(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Senator Joe Manchin spoke about the “Build Back Better” bill a day after the conservative Democratic senator publicly rejected the president’s social spending plans, a White House adviser said on Friday.
“He (Biden) has some confidence about that (bill), including discussions he has had with Senator Manchin”, Jared Bernstein, member of the White House council of economic advisers, said in an interview with CNN on Friday.
“The president and Senator Manchin – the day after that announcement where the senator said he couldn’t vote for the bill as it was – they were talking again.”
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru, Editing by Louise Heavens)
