The top four members of Congress met with President Joe Biden on Nov. 29 in a bid to come to agreements regarding the lame duck session.
Only several weeks are available for Democrats to get priorities passed before they lose the House of Representatives after Republicans flipped a number of seats in the midterm elections.
“We’re going to work together to fund—I hope to work together to fund—the government, COVID and the war in Ukraine, all controversial and consequential issues,” Biden told reporters before the meeting in Washington. “And we’re going to find other areas of common ground I hope, because the American people want us to work together.”…