The president's fellow Democrats abandon plans for a vote, leaving his whole platform up in the air.
President Biden is in Rome for a G20 summit and will head to a UK climate conference on Sunday
Mr Biden, whose approval rating has been falling, said his presidency itself was hanging in the balance. But the more liberal members of the party refused to go along with the plans without a guarantee that both spending packages would be voted on in tandem.$555bn aimed at fighting climate change, mainly through tax-incentives for renewable and low-emission sources of energy$150bn to build one million affordable housing units
It also includes $100bn for unspecified reforms to the nation's immigration system, according to US media. The president has argued that the spending will be fully paid for by tax hikes on corporations and multimillionaires.Left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders said it was "probably the most consequential bill since the 1960s", but added that there were some major gaps in it.
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