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Biden digs with fellow Dems seeking deal on $3.5T plan

FILE - In this July 28, 2021 file photo, bipartisan Senate negotiators speak to reporters just after a vote to start work on a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure package, at the Capitol in Washington. From left are Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. Centrist Democrats Manchin and Sinema are vital to the fate of President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion "Build Back Better" agenda. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file) Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., center, flanked by Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, hoists a copy of the Democrats' $3.5 trillion "Build Back Better" package as they speak to reporters after a Republican policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., a centrist Democratic senator vital to the fate of President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion "Build Back Better" agenda, departs the Senate before meeting with Biden at the White House, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. Sinema and fellow moderate, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., have balked at the price tag and are now under pressure to show Biden what size package they could live with. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Reporters vie for updates as House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., leaves a Democratic Caucus meeting in the basement of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. Work continues behind the scenes on President Joe Biden's domestic agenda and a bill to fund the the government. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., right, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., update reporters on Democratic efforts to pass President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)