{"id":40700,"date":"2021-10-03T10:38:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T17:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40700"},"modified":"2021-10-03T10:38:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T17:38:36","slug":"white-house-seeks-to-flip-debate-on-agenda-price-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40700","title":{"rendered":"White House seeks to flip debate on agenda price tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">White House officials are trying to cut through the focus on the price tag of President Biden\u2019s economic agenda as they look to persuade moderate senators to get on board.<\/p>\n<p>The administration argues that the Democratic-only reconciliation bill essentially won\u2019t cost anything since the legislation, which could be as high as $3.5 trillion but is in flux, will be offset by tax increases on corporations and wealthy Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats believe the argument will have a dual effect of assuaging concerns from moderates about the size and cost of the package while also beating back the Republican narrative that Biden is overseeing a \u201ctax and spend\u201d agenda. But efforts to win over centrist lawmakers on the cost component have thus far been unsuccessful, despite Biden\u2019s direct intervention.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House officials are trying to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40701,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40700\/revisions\/40701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}