Some senior progressive Democrats appeared ready to compromise with the moderate faction of the party on two massive spending bills that are at the core of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda
"People will be disappointed. People will not get everything they want, that is the art of legislating, but the goal here is to get both bills, and we’re going to fight until we get both bills," Cedric Richmond, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
After earlier agreeing at moderates' urging to hold a House vote last week on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that passed the Senate in an August bipartisan vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi canceled the vote at the urging of progressives who want both bills to move in unison. Progressive Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, told ABC News Sunday that $3.5 trillion "should be a minimum. But I accept there is going to have to be give and take."
But they both also suggested the proposals to fight climate change were not negotiable. "We cannot afford to increase carbon or just fossil fuel emissions at this time. That is simply the science, that is not something we can kick down the line," Ocasio-Cortez told CBS' "Face the Nation."
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