“A growing chorus of Democrats is calling on President Joe Biden to pull the plug on bipartisan infrastructure negotiations, arguing the talks are going nowhere fast and risk derailing major parts of his policy agenda. An advertisement funded by a coalition of liberal groups, whose leaders are close to the White House, putting pressure on Biden and Congress to include child care, paid leave and home care for the aging and disabled in the infrastructure package, was set to begin airing Thursday during primetime on CNN. The ad debuted the same day Republicans unveiled their latest counteroffer, which many Democrats critiqued as insufficient.”

“The coalition, made up of more than a dozen groups, is pushing Biden to take initiatives that are currently part of two separate proposals – known as the jobs and families plans – and fold them into one larger legislative package that Democrats could pass on a party-line vote in the Congress. ‘We certainly want the president to make the pivot with Congress to move this package, the entire package, forward quickly,’ Ai-jen Poo, director of Caring Across Generations and senior advisor to Care in Action, said in an interview. ‘His own timeline has sunsetted in terms of giving some space for the potential for a bipartisan solution here.’ Caring Across Generations is pushing for access to affordable long-term care for families, which Poo said should not be put into a secondary bill that includes Biden’s agenda for families. Care in Action advocates for domestic workers, including nannies and caregivers, and is paying for the commercial” – McClatchy.