As Joe Biden’s Agenda Hangs In Balance, Media Coverage Highlights The “TV Show” Drama

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that this week’s high-stakes, unresolved and unpredictable drama on Capitol Hill was “like an episode of a TV show.”A reporter quickly asked, “What TV show?”“Maybe The West Wing, if something good happens.

Maybe Veep if not,” she said.She was talking specifically about the prospects that a key part of Joe Biden’s agenda, the roughly $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, will even make it to the House floor, as is planned, on Thursday.

The fate of that piece of legislation, already passed by a bipartisan majority of the Senate, depends on whether Democrats can come to an agreement on a much larger $3.5 trillion package, known as the Build Back Better Act, which would expand the social safety