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Senior House Dems launch pressure campaign ahead of key budget vote
Google ^ | Aug 17, 2021

Posted on 08/17/2021 3:06:58 PM PDT by 11th_VA

Senior House Democrats on Tuesday aggressively pushed their caucus to fall in line behind next week’s key budget vote, hoping to quell a rank-and-file rebellion that threatens to at least temporarily derail President Joe Biden’s economic agenda.

“We have to hold firm. We have to stay together,” Rep. Peter said …

The centrists’ threat against the budget is the latest iteration of a long-running tug of war between moderates and progressives in the Democratic Caucus. And with just a three-vote margin in the House, that rift could tank Biden’s entire domestic agenda if Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team can’t bring their caucus together …

At least 11 Democrats — including nine who signed a public letter led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey — have told leadership they won’t support the budget resolution unless Pelosi brings the Senate infrastructure bill up for an immediate vote… Democrats can only lose three votes on the floor and still pass the budget resolution. So far, those moderates won’t back down…

But Pelosi has no plans to bring the infrastructure bill up for a final passage vote next week, despite moderate demands, maintaining she won’t do so until the Senate approves the massive social spending package through reconciliation...

But some of those moderates privately argue that their resolve has only hardened after Pelosi’s comments on Monday night, as well as Biden’s glaring failures in Afghanistan that they believe have heightened the need for a domestic win.

Monday night’s vote will include one more pressure point for moderates: If they vote against the rule, they’ll also be blocking the consideration of a broadly popular voting rights measure...

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My enemy’s enemy is my friend …
1 posted on 08/17/2021 3:06:58 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

These “moderates” are all about self preservation in the 2022 election. However if they do scuttle the socialist agenda, they will alienate 5-15% of their core leftist supporters in their districts. If they don’t come out or fail to man the fraud machines, most of them will lose anyway.


2 posted on 08/17/2021 3:11:24 PM PDT by allendale
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To: 11th_VA

Blah they’ll all vote for it to show support for the Tallyband


3 posted on 08/17/2021 3:11:42 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: 11th_VA

All you have to say is, “Biden’s failing with the budget just like he did in Afghanistan.”

That’s it.


4 posted on 08/17/2021 3:12:04 PM PDT by struggle
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To: 11th_VA

Biden’s mess is going to get all over the place. And NONE of the failing Democrat’s corrupt Unconstitutional legislation should be passed, if the Democrats know what is good for them. They need to turn on Biden, attack him, and act like they never supported him. This will not work, but it will eat through the time they could have pushed all this offal through Congress. Chaos is all we can count on.


5 posted on 08/17/2021 3:14:11 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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To: Richard Axtell

I think they will find a reason to dump Kabul Joe. Rumor has it VP Harris has begun to ask about the 25th Amendment.


6 posted on 08/17/2021 3:16:10 PM PDT by Braak (The US Military, the real arms inspectors!)
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To: 11th_VA
Senior House Dems launch pressure campaign ahead of key budget vote

Senior House Dems launch YET ANOTHER pressure campaign ahead of key budget vote

7 posted on 08/17/2021 3:23:08 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: 11th_VA
If they vote against the rule, they’ll also be blocking the consideration of a broadly popular voting rights measure...

Broadly popular???

8 posted on 08/17/2021 3:24:08 PM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: 11th_VA

“...threatens to at least temporarily derail President Joe Biden’s economic agenda...”

Good grief, LOL, Joe’s only agenda is to touch little girls and eat ice cream.


9 posted on 08/17/2021 3:38:35 PM PDT by trailboss800
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To: SES1066

It’s Google, after all.


10 posted on 08/17/2021 3:38:37 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportiongte tfo mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Pollutico is the real source.

11 posted on 08/17/2021 3:41:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: trailboss800

And pudding cups.


12 posted on 08/17/2021 4:08:40 PM PDT by abbastanza
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To: 11th_VA

These are the Assistant Democrats that made it possible:

Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Mike Crapo (R-ID) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Richard Burr (R-NC) Deb Fischer (R-NE) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Rob Portman (R-OH) Thom Tillis (R-NC) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Jim Risch (R-ID) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Roger Wicker (R-MS) Mitch McConnell (R-KY) John Hoeven (R-ND) Susan Collins (R-ME) Mitt Romney (R-UT)


13 posted on 08/17/2021 6:18:39 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; ...
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
14 posted on 08/18/2021 5:38:39 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

For once, we may have laid a trap on thr Democrats’ side.


15 posted on 10/14/2021 2:21:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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