Biden acknowledges his Build Back Better plan will miss Christmas deadline

Negotiations for economic and climate package stall as the centrist senator Joe Manchin withholds support

Joe Biden has acknowledged that his $1.75tn economic and climate legislative package will miss the Christmas deadline for Senate passage and will not pass Congress in the waning weeks of this year.

Negotiations for the president's Build Back Better bill, for which the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, set a Christmas deadline, have stalled as the centrist Democratic senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has withheld his support for the bill in its current form, making him a key vote in the evenly split Senate.