The White House stumbles on its delicate infrastructure dance

Biden quickly backtracked, releasing a statement Saturday, then deploying a small army of surrogates on the Sunday television shows. In one illustration of how delicate things are, senior White House adviser Cedric L. Richmond, a former member of Congress, refused to flat-out answer whether Biden would sign the bipartisan bill, despite the president’s statement Saturday. And Richmond essentially conceded that Democrats will pass whatever they want in a second bill.