At a weekly press conference Thursday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), joined by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, announced that the White House, the House, and the Senate had negotiated a “framework” to pay for the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act. Opening the conference, Schumer said: “The White House, the House, and the Senate have reached agreement on a framework that will pay for any final negotiated agreement. So the revenue side of this, we have an agreement.” He clarified that they have “an agreement of a framework.” The announcement represents a huge step forward for the bill, which has been bogged down in intra-party disputes since its introduction. Many of these disputes have centered around the economic impact of the bill. In the upper chamber, moderate Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) had each expressed opposition to the bill’s …