In a pair of meetings with two separate wings of the House Democratic Caucus on Wednesday evening, President Joe Biden received mixed messages over how to jump-start his stalled agenda, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.

The context: In recent weeks, as action on key Democratic priorities has languished in Congress, progressives as well as some senior party leaders have pushed the president to more liberally use his pen to sidestep Congress and take executive actions to enact key campaign promises on everything from immigration to climate to student loans. 

But that proposed strategy has caused heartburn among other Democrats, who worry about the potential for political blowback — not to mention concerns about those policies being rolled back the minute a Republican president is sworn in.

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