Biden: Negotiated budget reconciliation bill will be less than $3.5 trillion

President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that the Democrats' final negotiated budget reconciliation bill would be less than $3.5 trillion.

According to ABC News, Biden was asked in Michigan what he would remove from the current $3.5 trillion proposal to obtain the support of all Democrats in Congress. He reportedly declined to respond on spending reductions but said the final package would come in less than $3.5 trillion.

When departing Michigan, Biden was asked how he’s going to reduce the reconciliation proposal by $1 trillion.

 

“Well, that’s what we’re negotiating now.  And it’ll be -- it’ll be done. Look, my objective is to get everything that I campaigned on passed eventually.  It won't all happen at once,” he said.

“We'll get a compromise between the folks who are supporting strongly the infrastructure and the human infrastructure.  We'll get a compromise.  But it doesn't mean that's the end of what's in the rest of the package, he added. 

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has objected to spending $3.5 trillion through partisan budget reconciliation process at this time, citing rising inflation and other issues. 

Just the News reported last month that some House Democrats such as Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.'s delegate, thought the reconciliation bill would need to be scaled back.