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Biden to break up $1.8 trillion economic bill, try to pass it in pieces

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

By Tom Howell Jr., Dave Boyer and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Biden on Wednesday officially threw in the towel on his roughly $1.8 trillion social welfare and climate bill, saying he would instead break up the legislation and try to pass “big chunks.”

President Joe Biden takes off his mask to speak about the COVID-19 pandemic during a prime-time address from the East Room of the White House, on March 11, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WVa., speaks to the media after senate democrats luncheon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Biden is meeting privately with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, a visit intended to deliver a jolt to the party's long-stalled voting and elections legislation. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Two Senate Democrats join with GOP to hand Biden bipartisan defeat on remaking filibuster

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Pro-life activists march outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, during the March for Life in Washington Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

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Taliban Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund speaks during an economic conference at the former Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. Even as Afghanistan faces a humanitarian catastrophe and its economy teeters on the brink of collapse, the United Nations representative on Wednesday told a Taliban-organized economic conference in the capital Kabul there have been some advances, including a surprising $1 billion in exports. (Taliban Prime Minister Media Office via AP)

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President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans for the first time disapproving of his handling of the presidency in the face of an unrelenting pandemic and roaring inflation. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden to break up $1.8 trillion economic bill, try to pass it in pieces

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, touches elbows with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the occasion of their meeting at the Bankova, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

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In this Sept. 13, 2017 file photo, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, speaks with reporters outside the West Wing after a bipartisan meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, in Washington. Kristie Small, a former senior aide to Cuellar has filed a lawsuit against the Texas Democrat in Washington D.C. on Monday that claims she was wrongly fired for being pregnant. The lawsuit argues Cuellar's firing of Small was both sex and pregnancy discrimination in violation of the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, left, and Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, gather with other justices of the U.S. Supreme Court for an official group portrait, June 1, 2017, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Both justices deny an earlier media report that they were at odds over the wearing of masks in court during the recent surge in coronavirus cases. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) **FILE**

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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris walk off stage after speaking in support of changing the Senate filibuster rules that have stalled voting rights legislation, at Atlanta University Center Consortium, on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, Jan. 11, 2022, in Atlanta. Harris is capping off a controversial first year in office, creating history as the first woman of color in her position while fending off criticism and complaints over her focus and agenda. While she’s sought to make the office her own, Harris has struggled at times with the constraints of a global pandemic and the realities of a role focused squarely on promoting the president. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

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In this Sept. 17, 2021, file photo a National Guardsman stands guard at a fence that runs along the Rio Grande near the International bridge in Del Rio, Texas. A National Guardsman opened fire early Tuesday at a car suspected of being used by smugglers that barreled toward him and other troops assigned to border security in Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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