ABC News Ripped for Tweeting That a ‘Single Senator’ Is Going to ‘Set Back’ Biden’s Agenda

Conservatives on social media were quick to call out a tweet about President Joe Biden’s stalled agenda which stated that a “single senator” was holding up legislation in the Senate.

On Friday, ABC News tweeted a link to a story about the difficulty Biden is experiencing in getting his agenda passed.

The caption read, “A single senator is about to seriously set back an entire presidential agenda.”

The tweet comes as Democrats delayed a vote on the roughly $2 trillion Build Back Better Act after negotiations with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) failed to win his support for the legislation.

Conservatives on Twitter were quick to react:

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On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) confirmed that Democrats would not meet their self-imposed year-end deadline for passing the bill. He said, “The president requested more time to continue his negotiations, and so we will keep working with him, hand in hand, to bring this bill over the finish line and deliver on these much-needed provisions.”

However, he did not lay out a timeline for when the bill might come up for a vote.

In a statement, Biden said Manchin “reiterated his support for Build Back Better funding at the level of the framework plan I announced in September.”

“I believe that we will bridge our differences and advance the Build Back Better plan, even in the face of fierce Republican opposition,” the statement added.

Democrats are hoping to use a process known as budget reconciliation in the Senate to pass the spending package. That would require all 50 senators to vote for the bill, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.

If Manchin and every Republican senator voted against it, the bill would fail to pass the Senate.