House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in a letter to colleagues that Democrats will add paid family and medical leave back into their large social spending bill—but soon after, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin called the move a 'challenge.'
With paid family and medical leave likely left out of the infrastructure bill, the U.S. remains the only wealthy country in the world without this benefit.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in a letter to colleagues on Wednesday that Democrats will add paid family and medical leave back into their large social spending bill, but soon after, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin called the move a"challenge.
However, from the Senate side, a source told ABC News the addition of paid family and medical leave is"far from reality yet" -- and Pelosi acknowledges obstacles ahead in the upper chamber in her"Dear Colleague"Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks to the press with President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Italy Roberto Fico, ahead of a bipartisan leadership meeting in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2021.
Manchin, meanwhile, did not explicitly say he would vote against the package if paid leave is included. But when asked about it shortly after word surfaced on Wednesday, he said he remains strongly opposed to it being included in the reconciliation package -- a process Senate Democrats are using to avoid a Republican filibuster, but a tactic that requires all 50 Democratic votes, including Manchin's.
"We do this responsibly, fully paying for the means-tested program," he wrote in a statement on Wednesday. Manchin, however, has for days said he's concerned about insolvency in Medicare and Medicaid, and on Monday he said social expansion beyond those programs, for things like paid leave, is"aspirational".Sen. Joe Manchin, who has been a key holdout on President Joe Biden's ambitious domestic package, is surrounded by reporters as he leaves the chamber after a vote, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2021.
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