President Joe Biden, trying to keep his new infrastructure agreement with a bipartisan Senate group on track, has pulled back on rhetoric explicitly tying his support of the public works package with passage also of a much larger measure dealing with education, child care and other social programs.
In a statement released on June 26—just two days after the deal on the infrastructure outline was announced—Biden said he didn't intend to leave the impression he was threatening to veto the infrastructure bill.