Biden Holds His First Meeting with the “Big Four” Congressional Leaders
President Biden hosted the “Big Four” congressional leaders for the first time at the White House on Wednesday in hopes of finding areas of common agreement amid high partisan tensions in Washington.
The meeting comes more than 100 days after Biden was sworn in as president. The group was expected to discuss Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal, among other topics, though members of both parties were skeptical that the two sides would have much of a breakthrough.
“When I ran, I said I wasn’t going to be a Democratic president, I was going to be a president for all Americans,” Biden told reporters who were allowed into the meeting for a brief two minutes. “The bottom line here is we’re going to see whether we can reach some consensus on a compromise. … We’re going to talk a lot about infrastructure today.”
