Moderate Dems Tell Pelosi To Pound Sand; Threaten To Hold $3.5T Budget Plan Hostage
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is scrambling to strike a compromise with nine moderate Democrats threatening to tank the $3.5 trillion budget blueprint, which they say they won’t support unless there’s an immediate vote on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package.
The nine moderates told Pelosi to pound sand.
“While we appreciate the forward procedural movement on the bipartisan infrastructure agreement, our view remains consistent: We should vote first on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework without delay and then move to immediate consideration of the budget resolution,” they said in a Sunday night statement. “We simply cannot afford any delays.”
House Democrats scheduled a caucus call for Tuesday at noon as they seek to resolve differences over the path forward and the sequencing of Biden’s two-track approach.
Pelosi’s proposal earlier Sunday reflects conflicting pressures on the speaker within her caucus. Progressives are demanding that she hold up a vote on the infrastructure package until the Senate completes a final version of the bigger budget package to ensure it addresses their priorities on social programs and climate change. -Bloomberg
“Our goal is to pass the budget resolution the week of August 23rd so that we may pass Democrats’ Build Back Better agenda via reconciliation as soon as possible,” said Pelosi. “To that end, I have requested that the Rules Committee explore the possibility of a rule that advances both the budget resolution and the bipartisan infrastructure package.”
“This will put us on a path to advance the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation bill.”
Oh my, Nasty’s power strangle she has the dims seems to be slipping.