House progressives say they’re in no mood simply swallow another bill from Democratic leaders
House Democratic leaders eager to pass a massive $733 billion defense bill this week must first win over frustrated progressives who are still stinging from their loss on last month’s bitter border spending fight.
With no guarantees of GOP votes, top Democrats on the defense panel have carefully courted the Congressional Progressive Caucus for months, eager to win their support despite provisions that liberals have long detested, like yet another increase to the Pentagon’s budget and a lack of constraints on what they see as endless wars by the Trump administration.Sign Up
“The final bill has to be progressive or progressives aren’t going to support it,” one Democratic aide close to the CPC added. But progressive leaders have also acknowledged that the process to shape the Democrats’ defense bill felt much different from the contentious border funding bill from the start. Top Democrats like Smith — who is a member of the progressive caucus — has intentionally worked to include the caucus’s left as he shaped the bill.
“With NDAA, there’s proactive work with the progressives to make sure we have progressive amendments," Khanna said. “That’s been noticed, that’s been rewarded.”
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