美国总统乔·拜登周三在接受美国广播公司《今晚世界新闻》主播大卫·穆尔的独家采访时说，他认为“我们需要做的大量事情”作为他的“重建更好的社会立法”的一部分，实际上将“完成”——尽管民主党参议员乔·曼钦反对。

众议院上个月通过了拜登1.75万亿美元的“重建得更好”计划，为儿童保育、带薪探亲假、教育、医疗保健和应对气候变化提供了大量资金。西弗吉尼亚州的曼钦在参议院推迟了该法案的通过，并在本周早些时候表示，他将对“这项立法投反对票。”

“看来，曼钦参议员的主要症结是儿童税收抵免，”穆尔在坐下来接受采访时告诉拜登，他指的是民主党的目标，即在国会和拜登今年早些时候暂时扩大税收抵免后，继续向父母提供扩大的税收抵免。

“如果这意味着让他加入，你愿意拿出来吗?”穆尔追问。

拜登说:“好吧，听着，我想尽可能多地完成我能做的事情，尽可能多地完成我们能做的事情，我仍然认为我们将能够完成大量我们需要完成的事情。“特别是当美国人民弄清楚这项立法的内容时。这是极其重要的。”

参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默曾希望在圣诞节前在参议院通过该法案，白宫表示支持这一时间表。曼钦的持续反对使这成为不可能。

由于参议院在民主党和共和党之间平分秋色，总统需要每个民主党人都支持他的法案。几个月来，白宫一直在与曼钦谈判，曼钦对该法案的整体价格标签及其对通胀的影响表示担忧。(白宫辩称，该法案实际上将缓解通胀。)

穆尔说:“你已经和参议员乔·曼钦见过几次面了。“你邀请他去你在特拉华州的家，他一周前来到白宫。然后他在周日早上的电报上说‘我是一个否定的人’，这是怎么回事?怎么，你怎么就不能完成这笔交易呢?”

拜登谈到了他的政府取得的成就和不断增长的经济，并指出，在曼钦表示他将投反对票后，高盛大幅下调了对明年美国经济产出的预期。

“听着，当乔——当参议员曼钦宣布他不会支持这项协议时，发生了什么?”拜登说。“高盛和其他华尔街公司——而不是自由主义组织——说，‘哇，那太糟糕了。’我们需要这个更好的重建计划来保持增长率。"

J.斯科特·阿普尔怀特/美联社文件

参议员乔·曼钦在与总统乔·拜登谈论了他的长期任期后离开了办公室...阅读更多

白宫和国会民主党人承诺加倍努力通过社会政策计划，最早将于下个月国会议员返回华盛顿时在参议院进行投票。

“我没有放弃这一点，”拜登告诉穆尔。“我没有放弃。”

President Biden to ABC's David Muir: 'I haven't given up' on Build Back Better bill

President Joe Biden said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with ABC "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir that he thinks "a significant amount of what we need to get done" as part of his Build Back Better social legislation will, in fact, "get done" -- despite opposition from Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.

The House passed Biden's $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan last month, providing significant funding for child care, paid family leave, education, health care and combating climate change. Manchin, of West Virginia, has held up its passage in the Senate and earlier this week said he would vote "no on this piece of legislation."

"Senator Manchin’s main sticking point, it would appear, is the Child Tax Credit," Muir told Biden during the sit-down interview, referring to Democrats' goal of continuing to offer parents an expanded tax credit after Congress and Biden temporarily expanded it earlier this year.

"Are you willing to take that out, if it means bringing him on board?" Muir pressed.

"Well, look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done, as much as we can possibly get done, and I still think we'll be able to get a significant amount of what we need to get done, done," Biden said. "Particularly as the American people figure out what is in this legislation. It's extremely consequential."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had hoped to pass the bill in the Senate by Christmas, a timeline the White House said it supported. Manchin's continued opposition has made that impossible.

With the Senate evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, the president needs every Democrat to support his bill. The White House had for months been negotiating with Manchin, who has expressed concern about the legislation's overall price tag, as well as its impact on inflation. (The White House argues the bill will actually ease inflation.)

"You've met with Senator Joe Manchin a number of times," Muir said. "You invited him to your home in Delaware, he came to the White House a week ago. Then he's on Sunday morning cable and says 'I'm a no.' How does that happen? How, how are you not able to close the deal?"

Biden spoke about his administration's accomplishments and the growing economy, and pointed out that after Manchin said he would vote "no," Goldman Sachs slashed its expectations for U.S. economic output next year.

"Look, when Joe -- when Senator Manchin announced he wasn't going to go for the deal, what happened?" Biden said. "Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms -- not liberal organizations -- said, 'Whoa, that's bad.' We need this Build Back Better plan to continue the growth rate."

The White House and congressional Democrats have pledged to redouble efforts to pass the social policy plan, with a vote in the Senate as soon as next month when members of Congress return to Washington.

"I haven’t given up on this," Biden told Muir. "I haven't given up on it."