Obama's top campaign strategist David Axelrod said Sunday
that the president jobs bill "didn't die" after Senate Republicans
blocked the bill in a Tuesday vote.
"Well, it took a setback. We're going to keep at it. It
didn't die," said Axelrod Sunday on ABC's “This Week.”
Axelrod said the White House was committed to its new
strategy of pressing lawmakers to pass the individual measures in the proposal
piecemeal.
"Now we're going to take it apart and we're going to go
piece by piece. The American people support every single plank of that bill,
and we're going to vote on every single one of them," insisted Axelrod.
Republican senators joined by two centrist Democrats voted
on Tuesday to stop the president's $447 billion American Jobs Act from reaching
the Senate floor.
Axelrod though would not reveal which elements of the
package the White House intended to prioritize. " I'm not going to discuss
a legislative calendar here, but they will be done sequentially, and the
sequence is being discussed right now," he said.
He added that while there was strong opposition from
Republican lawmakers, the White House believed the measures were popular with
the American public.
"The American people strongly support it. And the
American people are going to be heard on this legislation. I think so many
Americans are just sitting there saying, "Act," to Congress. "Do
something. Stop playing games," said Axelrod.
