Senate Democrats Hope to Pass President Joe BidenGet the final touches done on your social safety net or climate plan by Christmas so that you don’t impede progress next year.

Later this week, the House will vote to approve the $1.75 Trillion economic package. After returning from Thanksgiving recess, the Senate will then take up this legislation.

“The [Build Back Better Act]It is extremely important for America. We believe that it’s popular with Americans. Therefore, we plan to pass it before Christmas,” Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday to reporters.

Democrats have to clear several hurdles to pass a bill that — along with the $1 trillion infrastructure package that Biden signed into law Monday — they see as their key to trying to defend their majorities in Congress next year. The party is pushing the Build Back Better act, which will include child-care assistance and a one year extension to the child credit. It also plans on introducing a slew of federal benefits, including universal preK, expanded Medicare, and Medicaid.

These are the challenges that lie ahead. The House Democrats will need to convince a small group of centrists to view the long-term budgetary estimates for the bill from the Congressional Budget Office before voting for it.

CBO will deliver its scores Friday. This timeline allows for a House vote to be held by Saturday.

It could be more challenging to get the bill through the Senate. Democrats are unable to afford defections by their 50 members as they seek to pass the bill through the Senate with a simple majority under special budget rules.

Joe Manchin (Conservative Democratic Senator, D-W.Va.) has stated that he would like to negotiate four weeks of paid time off the House package. He expressed concern about the bill’s progress as inflation remains at an inexorable high.

Manchin stated that the CBO’s upcoming score might affect his vote.

On Tuesday, he said, “So that everybody is fair, let’s find out what the score, let’s determine exactly what they intend to do”, to reporters.

Schumer might have to modify the House plan in order to retain his entire caucus and to pass the bill. The Senate could make tweaks to the bill and it would need to be re-voted by the House.

Democrats don’t want the process to stall too much into next year. Sometimes, substantive legislation comes to a grinding halt in election years.

Even though Manchin had led efforts to lower its price tag by half, Manchin proclaimed that the plan was one of its most significant legislative pieces in recent years. The plan would expand the social safety net and offer tax incentives and tax credits that will accelerate the country’s shift to sustainable energy.

Republicans — and the Democratic Manchin — have raised concerns that the plan will exacerbate high prices for consumers.

Democrats are trying to sell Americans the benefits of the policies, and have not only tried to pass their two agenda planks. Biden visited New Hampshire on Tuesday, which is the swing state in the Senate election. He was there to present the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill.

Schumer believes Biden will take similar trips if Congress approves the safety-net bill.

Biden said that he would “go around the country speaking about it, along with all of our senators, and I believe it will prove to be very helpful to those who voted in favor.”

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