Paid Family Leave to be Removed from Biden’s Proposed Spending Bill

Also in Washington, lawmakers are hard at work narrowing down Biden’s proposed spending bill. Democrats are expected to remove paid family and medical leave from the multi trillion dollar economic and climate package as lawmakers are scrambling to strike a deal across party lines according to multiple people involved in the talks. The plan’s survival has been questioned for the last several days due to objections from Senator Joe Manchin.

The President’s initial 12 week proposal was previously scaled back to just 4 weeks in an effort to keep Manchin’s support but that was rejected and led New York Democratic Senator Kristen Gillibrand to find compromise with Manchin which has not succeeded. Manchin made it clear yesterday that he would not move on his opinion saying “It doesn’t make sense to me.” he added “I want to work with everyone as long as we can start paying for things. That’s all. I can’t put this burden on my grandchildren.”