Biden Aims to Keep Infrastructure Deal Alive, Denying Veto Vow
- Conveying veto threat was ‘not my intent,’ president says
- Biden’s agenda hangs in the balance amid competing interests
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President Joe Biden sought to hold together a $579 billion bipartisan infrastructure agreement, saying he hadn’t intended to issue a veto threat by linking it to another spending bill, a position that alarmed Republican senators who had made the deal.
Biden said in a statement on Saturday that his comments “created the impression that I was issuing a veto threat on the very plan I had just agreed to, which was certainly not my intent.”