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The White House is leaning into deficit reduction. Democrats say that’s fine, so long as it helps open up negotiations with Joe Manchin.

Sen. Joe Manchin speaks during a news conference at the Capitol on March 3, 2022 in Washington, D.C. | Alex Wong/Getty Images

By Laura Barrón-López

03/28/2022 07:33 PM EDT

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It’s Joe Biden’s budget — delivered with a Joe Manchin-style flourish.

The White House is boasting that the president’s budget contains major deficit reduction, a move that Democrats see as calculated to appeal to a handful of centrist lawmakers who hold the pre-midterms fate of the president’s economic agenda in their hands.

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