House Democrats have amended the enormous social spending framework at the heart of President Biden's economic agenda to include paid family leave — a popular provision that had met resistance from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and was thought to be removed from the package.

The change was announced Wednesday morning in a letter from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who said the Rules Committee would meet later in the day in a "hearing" to consider the changes.

But Pelosi stopped short of announcing a Rules Committee vote on the package, which would indicate that House leaders were poised to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.

Instead, the Speaker said there remain "a few" outstanding issues yet to be resolved, which would prevent the legislation from passing through the Senate in its current form. And because Pelosi has vowed not to force House lawmakers to vote on anything that can't win 50 votes in the Senate, she's waiting for negotiators to iron out those remaining differences before the full House will consider the bill.

"It had been my intention throughout this process to put on the House Floor and pass a bill that would pass the Senate in the same form," Pelosi wrote.

"Because I have been informed by a Senator of opposition to a few of the priorities contained in our bill and because we must have legislation agreed to by the House and the Senate in the final version of the Build Back Better Act that we will send to the President’s desk, we must strive to find common ground in the legislation."