Posted on 08/13/2021 12:24:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Democrats outside of the progressive “squad” had bad news for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on the $3.5 trillion budget proposal. The nine Democratic lawmakers signed onto the letter are Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Jared Golden (D-ME), Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-GA), Filemon Vela (D-TX), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Ed Case (D-HI), Jim Costa (D-CA), and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) penned a letter to Pelosi threatening to squash the budget legislation if the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package is not passed first.
"Some have suggested that we hold off on considering the Senate infrastructure bill for months – until the reconciliation process is completed. 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,” the lawmakers wrote, per Fox News, adding that they “will not consider voting for a budget resolution until the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passes the House and is signed into law."
New - In letter, nine House Dem moderates threaten to withhold support for their party's budget resolution until Speaker Pelosi changes course and instead allows their chamber to first vote on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan the Senate approved this week. pic.twitter.com/H5N6oyiV6i
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 13, 2021
The move is a major blow to Pelosi, who sought the opposite approach. The speaker hoped to pass the budget reconciliation first before tackling the infrastructure package passed by the Senate.
As soon as I read “Bad News for Speaker Pelosi” my day got a little brighter.
Jared “Golden” boy. Elected by the Rank Smell Voting scam in Maine. He didn’t even know he was in Congress for the first 6 months. If they wake him up quick enough he can join Stupid Collins, Shelly Pedigree, and Anus King (not from Maine) at the next BIW ship launch. They stand there and pat themselves on the back like they built the ship.
She will just do a Brad Stupak move on them. Does anybody else remember his chance to be great, and how he caved?
Yes, BUT!
She and George Soros et al will pay whatever it takes to whomever it takes to get this piece of garbage passed and made law of the land!
Their “Destroy America” legislation is a “Done Deal!”
The only question remaining is, “How much are they willing to pay? What will be the final cost to those hateful/hate-filled, big-money anti-American LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist/Communist Democrat assholes who are intent on destroying America?”
I guess Ed Case doesn’t do cursive?
I live in Maine’s CD 2.
Golden “won” in 2018, even though he received 2,200 FEWER votes than the Republican incumbent, Bruce Poliquin.
All thanks to Rank Choice Voting and two ringers who were on the ballot.
I’m not believing this.
Pepperidge Farm remembers. I don’t know why FReepers continue to hold hope that some Democrats will stop Communism. At the end of the day, the Rats all stick together.
When does the clock strike midnight and they waited too long to pass the bill. Seems that if they don’t get it done by the beginning of October they will be into the 2022 election cycle and will be creamed by their ruthless spending.
The Afghanistan situation is the perfect storm to destroy the democrats as one can see a hostage situation bogging down the House and senate with investigations as to what Biden did wrong in the way he handed over all the weapons to the Taliban. You can see the Biden Administation already being a lame duck and who in the Democratic Party will get behind anything that Biden wants.
Biden administration has sunk the democrats boat.
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