Remember Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema and the Senate were having trouble with that. And I could see that was going to be a dead end, that build back better part. And I pushed really hard among top Democratic leadership to get them to decouple [the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Build Back Better part]. those two bills. And God bless them, they listened to me and they did decouple it. And last fall we were on the South Lawn of the White House when the President signed that into law. (22:44–22:52)
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