President Joe Biden joins other world leaders in Scotland on Monday for a United Nations summit on climate change without the signed-and-sealed budget agreement he was counting on from Congress to quiet skeptics of U.S. commitment.
That leaves him facing the tall task of parlaying a handshake commitment from American lawmakers to spend $555 billion fighting global warming into tangible action by fellow heads of state in Glasgow. And with major obstacles still to come for the draft legislation Biden unveiled on Thursday -- including votes in the House and Senate -- it still amounts to a message of “trust us.”
