Posted on 08/25/2021 2:23:16 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Progressives are digging in for a fall fight with centrists following a House budget deal to advance the party's top social priorities, with some on the left threatening to vote against the bipartisan infrastructure bill if it comes to the floor before the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package...
Now, leading progressives are signaling they plan to use their collective voting power to keep the pressure on leadership and their centrist colleagues to ensure the sweeping social benefits package passes Congress and becomes law.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a key member of the so-called squad of liberal lawmakers of color, warned that she would not vote for the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill by a new Sept. 27 deadline that Pelosi promised to moderates if that comes ahead of the $3.5 trillion package. Both measures have President Biden's full backing.
"Let's move them together," Tlaib told reporters on Tuesday.
"It's very obvious that I'm not going to do a [Sept. 27] deadline" without a reconciliation package, she added. "I want to work on what's going to go into reconciliation. That's a priority for me. They can put all these deadlines all they want, but they've got to bring all of us along."
Another prominent House progressive, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), made clear she would vote against the infrastructure bill if the larger package isn't ready by the late September deadline…
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Hopefully the progressives lose big time.
Look at the voting records, there are no centrists.
Centrist Rats? No such thing.
People have to keep calling their representative and senators.
Centrists are the most gutless people on the planet.
Stalin was a centrist, according to these lunatics.
Ultra-Stalinazis vs. regular Marxist Demonrats.
“centrists”
Center of WHAT?
We have now reached the time where a battle is brewing between those who know they are going to lose and those that want to try to win…most that vote for it that are centrists are goners next year while most that vote against it feel they still have a chance in the end all 10 or so while tow the party line democrats never break ranks even with next year shaping up to be a Democratic little big horn
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