By David Morgan

(Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Democrats worked on Wednesday against President Joe Biden to maintain paid family leaves in his emerging legislation regarding climate and social change. However, media reports have suggested that negotiations will continue despite the possibility of the benefit being removed from the bill.

Kirsten Gillibrand was the leader of efforts to find a compromise.

“It is not over. “It’s not done until it’s over. “As I stated, we continue to negotiate in good will and will attempt to get a robust pay-leave package into the bill,” Gillibrand informed reporters following a conversation with Manchin on the Senate’s floor.

Following reports by CNN and Wall Street Journal that Democrats were abandoning plans to keep the benefit, She said this after Biden’s package “Build Back better” in the Senate and House of Representatives.

Biden had originally proposed 12 weeks of family leave for the child’s birth. To win Manchin’s and Kyrsten Sinema’s agreement, the benefit was cut to just four weeks.

Patty Murray, Democratic senator and chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said that “We will not allow one or two males to tell millions upon millions of women in America that they cannot have paid leave.”

Manchin did not appear to be open to compromise, and told reporters that he didn’t believe such a significant policy shift should be part of the Biden package.

“I am just saying that we need to take care of what we do. It’s important to follow the right procedure if we want it done correctly, he stated.

Gillibrand however insisted that negotiations would go on for the next few days. She stated, “I talked to Senator Manchin. I presented my idea. He is researching the activities of other countries. He is looking into all details. And he assured me that he will remain open-minded.”