Nine Moderate House Democratic Party Tell the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi According to the Associated Press, they will not vote on a $3.5 trillion budget resolution until the infrastructure bill is passed.
Resistance is another obstacle to the proposed spending legislation, established as one of the presidents Joe BidenThe main work since taking office.
The House of Representatives is still narrowly divided according to party lines, and many Republicans The legislation is expected to be boycotted. Without the support of the Republican Party, the Democrats can only lose three votes, but they still have the upper hand in the final decision.
“We will not consider voting on budget resolutions until the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Employment Bill is passed into the House of Representatives and signed into law,” said nine centrist Democrats in a letter to Pelosi obtained by the Associated Press on Friday. Wrote in.
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The threat of the centrist went directly against the plan announced by Pelosi, and she showed no signs of concession. It also completed a double squeeze on the California Democrats, who were also under similar pressure from progressives from her party.
The Congressional approval of the budget resolution seems certain, because without it, Senate Republicans will be able to use obstruction bills or procedural delays to end subsequent US$3.5 trillion measures to support social safety nets and climate change programs. The measure is not expected to be implemented until the fall, and it represents the core of Biden’s domestic agenda.
Pelosi has repeatedly stated that the House of Representatives will not vote on the $1 trillion road, rail, water and other infrastructure projects until the Senate submits the $3.5 trillion supporting bill to the House of Representatives.
Pelosi set this order because progressives in her party fear that if the infrastructure bill is approved first, moderates who are dissatisfied with the cost of the $3.5 trillion measure alone will vote against it at will, leading to its failure. .
A senior Democratic aide to the House of Representatives said that the party did not have enough votes this month to pass the infrastructure bill. The aide compared nine moderates with dozens of progressive Democrats. Unless the House of Representatives receives a $3.5 trillion social and environmental bill in the Senate, they will vote against the measure.
The assistant has no right to discuss the party’s internal dynamics publicly and speaks on condition of anonymity.
“I am not a freelancer. This is a consensus,” Pelosi told the Democrats of her plan on a conference call this week, according to a private telephone person who asked not to be named. The speaker added: “The vote of the House of Representatives and the Senate depends on whether we have two bills.”
The leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which includes nearly 100 House Democrats, said that many of their members have indicated that they will vote against the infrastructure bill before the $3.5 trillion in broad legislation is passed by the Senate.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Democrat-Maryland) announced that the House of Representatives will return early from the summer recess on August 23 to vote on the budget and possible other legislation.
The letter is dated Thursday, earlier reported by Punchbowl News, a publication covering Capitol Hill, and New York Times.
By Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, Caroline Bourdo of Georgia, Philmon Villa, Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas , Jared Gordon of Maine, Ed Case of Hawaii, Jim Costa of California, and Kurt Schrader of Oregon.
The Senate approved the budget resolution on the grounds of strong Republican opposition early Wednesday, and a few hours later it approved the infrastructure bill with bipartisan support.
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