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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to singlehandedly force through a massive $3.5 trillion spending proposal by holding hostage a bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate this week. Unfortunately for her, there are still a few members left in the Democratic caucus with some common sense.
© Provided by Washington Examiner Nine moderate House Democrats have informed Pelosi that they will not back the $3.5 trillion reconciliation budget proposal until the House votes on the Senate-passed $1 trillion infrastructure package. Pelosi needs every single one of these votes if her plan to pass the reconciliation bill is to succeed.
"Some have suggested that we hold off on considering the Senate infrastructure bill for months — until the reconciliation process is completed. We disagree," the nine members wrote in a letter to Pelosi. "With the livelihoods of hardworking American families at stake, we simply can't afford months of unnecessary delays and risk squandering this once-in-a-century, bipartisan infrastructure package. It's time to get shovels in the ground and people to work. We will not consider voting for a budget resolution until the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passes the House and is signed into law."
At the same time, dozens of leftist Democrats, led by the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are threatening to withhold their votes from the bipartisan infrastructure package if the House doesn’t pass the reconciliation bill first. This leaves Pelosi in a bind: she’s going to have to choose a side, and right now it looks like she’s leaning toward the progressives.
It’s amazing that Pelosi, who is supposed to know how politics works, is bungling this so badly. There is very little chance that her $3.5 trillion spending proposal passes the Senate as it is currently written, even if the House were to pass the bipartisan package first. Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has already said she won’t support the bill with its current price tag, and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has raised similar concerns. Without their votes, the bill will fail in the Senate.
The bipartisan package, however, is a guaranteed accomplishment. Congressional Democrats will be able to tout the bill as a bipartisan achievement as they head back to their states ahead of the 2022 midterms, and President Joe Biden will be able to point to it as proof that he’s able to work with the other side. The Senate has already done the hart part for Pelosi; now all she has to do is bring it to the House floor for a vote, and make sure that the progressives fall in line.
Instead, Pelosi has decided to fall in line behind Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow leftists in pursuit of an unrealistic legislative feat. Which raises the question: Who’s really in charge over there?
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Pelosi threatens to destroy Democrats' infrastructure success
