A standoff between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a group of centrist Democrats is headed for a showdown Monday night over a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill and a $3.5 trillion package of healthcare, education and climate policies
nine centrists said they would vote against
Mrs. Pelosi has said for weeks that she wouldn’t bring the infrastructure bill to the House floor until the Senate passes the broader budget package. If the rule fails Monday night and the impasse persists—potentially sinking the vote on the budget blueprint Tuesday—it could delay or derail Democratic leaders’ plans for passing much of Mr. Biden’s legislative agenda. Lawmakers already face a shrinking window of time before the politics of next year’s midterm elections overtake Capitol Hill, making it even harder to pass contentious legislation.
The centrist Democrats said their stance reflected their concern that waiting for the budget bill to get passed in the Senate could delay the infrastructure bill by weeks, if not months.the Washington Post published Sunday night. “The challenge we face right now is that there is a standoff with some of our colleagues who have decided to hold the infrastructure bill hostage for months, or kill it altogether, if they don’t get what they want in the next bill—a largely undefined $3.
Both writing and passing the $3.5 trillion budget package will be time-consuming and politically challenging for Democrats, particularly in the evenly split Senate. Democrats can pass the $3.5 trillion package without GOP votes under a process tied to the budget known as reconciliation, but only if they retain the support of all 50 senators in the Democratic caucus.
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