Posted on 08/13/2021 11:07:16 AM PDT by 11th_VA
A bloc of House Democratic moderates is threatening to withhold support for the $3.5 trillion budget resolution until the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill is signed into law, throwing a potential roadblock into congressional leaders’ two-track legislative strategy.
Nine Democrats laid out their position yesterday in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), saying they disagreed with her decision to hold off on passing the bipartisan Senate package, H.R. 3684, until that chamber first passes the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package under development.
“Some have suggested that we hold off on considering the Senate infrastructure bill for months — until the reconciliation process is completed,” wrote the Democrats, led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.). “We disagree. With the livelihoods of hardworking American families at stake, we simply can’t afford months of unnecessary delays and risk squandering this once-in-a-century, bipartisan infrastructure package. It’s time to get shovels in the ground and people to work.”
Furthermore, the Democrats wrote, “we will not consider voting for a budget resolution until the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passes the House and signed into law.”
The threat poses a new challenge to the delicate effort by the White House and Democratic leaders to thread the needle on infrastructure by passing both the Senate’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan plan and the upcoming reconciliation package.
Moderates in both chambers have been wary of the price tag of the broader infrastructure push, and all the signatories of the letter face competitive races next year.
In addition to Gottheimer, who as co-chair of the Problem Solvers Caucus has encouraged the bipartisan talks for months, Democrats who signed were Reps. Carolyn Bourdeaux of Georgia, Jared Golden of Maine, Oregon’s Kurt Schrader, Jim Costa of California and Ed Case of Hawaii, as well as Vicente González, Henry Cuellar and Filemon Vela of Texas...
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Why , they’ll get everything they want and more
House “Squad” Democrats hit back Friday at their moderate colleagues after nine of them said they will not vote to advance their party’s $3.5 trillion budget resolution until the bipartisan infrastructure bill is signed into law.
“You’re not a ‘moderate’ Democrat if you vote against jobs with a livable wage, paid leave, child care, health care and a livable planet for American families,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said.
“Stop calling conservatives ‘moderates,'” Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., tweeted Friday morning.
The letter from the moderates Friday followed a similar one earlier this week from members of the House Progressive Caucus, but with an opposite demand.
Moderates think 3.5 T is too much. …
When they get this $4.7 trillion Nancy with bend over and pull out anther $10 or 20 trillion bill
The “moderates” simply want something from Pelosi. It’s theater. Once they get their demands quietly met behind the scenes, the deal is done.
This is Kabuki theater.
The real fight is the debt limit. It will no doubt be included in a bill but won’t be hidden.
No such thing as a Demonrat “moderate.” It’s either Stalinazi or ultra-Stalinazi.
Headline writer...please use some other word besides “erect”. I know it’s hard, but that word gets whipped out and overused with about every commercial you hear on the radio nowadays.
Thanks
They are assistant Democrats.
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