The White House is aggressively touting the political benefits of President Joe Biden’s plan to lower the cost of prescription drug prices, setting up the issue as a likely focal point of Congress’ budget debate when the House returns this week
President Joe Biden speaks about the bipartisan infrastructure bill from the East Room of the White House in Washington. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo.
The administration is also hoping that the provision will help solidify the Democratic votes they need to pass the roughly $3.5 trillion spending plan via the budget reconciliation process, which will require near-unanimous Democratic support in the House, and all 50 senators in the Democratic caucus.
Negotiating the cost of prescription drugs “is by far one of the most popular elements in the package,” said Celinda Lake, a pollster on Biden’s presidential campaign. “[And] it is a policy that brings in seniors, who have been more skeptical about some of the other aspects of the package.” “One in four Americans who take prescription drugs struggle to afford them,” Biden said. “We're going to help millions of Americans save money and ease their burdens by lowering the cost of prescription drugs.”
As the House prepares to vote on the budget resolution that will include the drug price measure, the White House has ramped up outreach to members at the behest of Democratic leadership, amid concerns they don’t yet have the necessary votes. In the House, a group of moderate Democrats are threatening to derail the resolution, arguing the House should first vote on the $1 trillion infrastructure bill the Senate already passed.
Wild said the issue she hears about the most from her constituents is the price of insulin. “When you've got something as important as this in the reconciliation package you need to really think long and hard before you vote no on that,” Wild said.
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