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By <\/span>Jim Tankersley<\/span><\/p>\n

John Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and an influential figure among Democrats in Washington, called on lawmakers in his party on Wednesday to pare back a proposed $3.5 trillion social policy plan that carries much of President Biden\u2019s domestic agenda.<\/p>\n

If they do not, he warned, they risk failure to pass the legislation \u2014 and the loss of their congressional majorities next year.<\/p>\n

In a memo sent to every office of a Democratic member of Congress, Mr. Podesta, the founder and chair of the board of directors for the Center for American Progress, implored moderates and progressives in dire terms to bridge their differences on the bill. The party\u2019s disputes include tax increases, individual spending programs and the total cost of a plan that would vastly expand the federal government\u2019s role in education, child care, fighting climate change, supporting workers, alleviating poverty and more.<\/p>\n

His message included a blunt call to progressives to accept a scaled-down price tag, in a bow to the party\u2019s centrists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe political reality is clear, given Democrats have no margin for error in the Senate and a limited margin in the House,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWe will not secure the full $3.5 trillion investment. It\u2019s time for Democrats to unite in finding the path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Mr. Podesta also had harsh words for moderates who have resisted the social safety net package, pushing instead for the passage of a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that has passed the Senate, and is due for a House vote next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are either getting both bills or neither \u2014 and the prospect of neither is unconscionable,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt would signal a complete and utter failure of our democratic duty, and a reckless abdication of our responsibility. It would define our generation\u2019s history and show that, when our time came, we failed, both for Americans now and in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

A large group of Democratic lawmakers is heading to the White House on Wednesday to strategize with Mr. Biden about the fate of both bills, which is likely to be determined in the next few weeks. Mr. Podesta\u2019s warnings reflect a growing fear among some Democrats on and off Capitol Hill that the entire effort could collapse, leaving the party with little to run on in midterm elections and no chance for years to enact ambitious legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe historical trend makes it clear that Democrats will face severe headwinds next November,\u201d Mr. Podesta wrote, \u201cbut nothing will guarantee a political reckoning faster than if the Democrats fail to pass anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Podesta singled out the bill\u2019s climate provisions, in particular, as critical for a moment when hurricanes and wildfires have slammed people across the nation and laid bare the realities of a warming planet.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the climate crisis in particular, the screen is blinking \u2018code red,\u2019\u201d he wrote. \u201cThere is no time. There is no next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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