Dec 01, 2021
Advocates are mounting a final push to ensure that Senate Democrats don’t strip the national paid leave program out of the party’s $2 trillion climate and social spending bill.
Their efforts are aimed squarely at Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), the lone Democratic holdout who has insisted that paid leave should be passed in a bipartisan way, and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who controls whether paid leave will be included in the Senate bill that will go to the floor this month.