Biden senior adviser Richmond on bipartisan infrastructure bill, Dem spending package: ‘We’ll sign both’

After President Biden stirred controversy by claiming that he would not sign a bipartisan infrastructure bill without having a massive partisan spending package alongside it, senior presidential adviser Cedric Richmond said Biden will indeed sign the narrower, Republican-backed bill – promising that the broader legislation would follow.

"I think he did exactly what the American people want him to do, and that is Republicans and Democrats come together where you agree, fight about what you don’t agree on afterwards," Richmond said. "So we are going to fight about the American Families Plan. Republicans are going to try to kill it, we’re going to try to pass it, we’re going to pass it, and we’ll sign both bills." When pressed on whether this meant that Biden will sign the infrastructure bill without any preconditions related to the larger spending bill, Richmond insisted that it was a non-issue, vowing that both will be signed.