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Biden, Manchin and Schumer huddle; still no budget deal

WASHINGTON — Deadline driven, President Joe Biden brought two pivotal senators — Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer — to his Delaware home Sunday for talks aimed at resolving the disputes that have stymied the Democrats' wide-ranging social safety net and environmental measure.

The White House said the breakfast meeting with New York's Schumer, the majority leader, and West Virginia's Manchin at Biden's home in Wilmington was a “productive discussion” about the president's agenda. The talks appeared to last for hours, but no decisions were announced. The Democrats “continued to make progress,” the White House said in its post-meeting statement.

The sweeping package, at the core of Biden's domestic agenda, is now being scaled back to about $2 trillion to win over Manchin, perhaps the party's most conservative senator, and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.

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