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Posted on 07/14/2021 11:34:40 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The White House admitted Wednesday that Senate Democrats lack the votes to pass the $3.5 trillion reconciliation “infrastructure” framework agreed upon Tuesday evening.
“If there were enough votes for each of these priorities there would be a vote and it would have happened,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said about the two track infrastructure proposals the Democrats are attempting to pass, one via filibuster- immune reconciliation and the other by a traditional vote.
Psaki added that Biden is:
…headed up to the hill because it’s the next natural step, ummm, and as I said, he [Biden] knows that as president you lay out out an agenda… [to] members of Congress [to] negotiate the details. And then it’s his role to continue to engage in selling both, both packages to members and the Senate and the public.
Psaki answered a follow-up question on the timing of the two track system by saying, “the President expects to sign both pieces of legislation into law. They’re on a dual tract, as he long said they would be on, and we’re going to leave it to the leaders in the Senate and House to determine the sequencing.”
The text of the Senate’s budget package has yet to be released but is planned to coincide with the bipartisan infrastructure two-pronged approach “to circumvent a GOP filibuster using budget reconciliation, the same move that Democrats used to pass the president’s $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package in March.”
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I think the Dems are abusing “reconciliation”. When Biden shot off his mouth that the first bill would be attached to the second...He meant exactly that.
IOW, they’re still negotiating the bribes.
Pshaw! The democrats are good at drumming up 81 million votes when they have to.
Someone is holding out for more money for their pet project (putting money in their pocket)
“Pshaw! The democrats are good at drumming up 81 million votes when they have to.”
They won’t be getting 81 million votes in 2022 & 2024. Its laughable.
Harris/Buttigieg 2024
“Make America gay again”
Trump/DiSantis or Trump/Pence 2024
“let get rid of these “dumb bitches”
Good, because all this is is payola for the Democrats. It should go down in flames.
We knew this yesterday when it was announced to great fanfare.
This $3.5 trillon “deal” was a deal amongst Democrats that requires 60 Senate votes.
Budget smudget.
Or, bullshit if you prefer.
They talk checks, but deliver jerkoffs!!
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