Speaker Pelosi Delays Vote on Infrastructure Bill

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WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said on Sunday night that the House would vote on a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill on Thursday, giving Democrats more time to reach a consensus on President Biden’s sprawling domestic policy package.

The vote will come hours before government funding — as well as key transportation programs addressed in the infrastructure bill — is scheduled to lapse on Oct. 1, leaving lawmakers with a narrow margin for error.

Ms. Pelosi had committed last month to holding a vote on the legislation by Monday, after a group of centrist Democrats threatened to vote against a budget blueprint needed to push through the party’s signature $3.5 trillion social policy and climate change bill unless they were promised a quick vote on the infrastructure measure, which the Senate passed last month.

But progressive lawmakers have vowed not to support the infrastructure bill until Congress acts on the $3.5 trillion plan to provide vast new investments in education, health, child care, paid leave and climate programs. That package has yet to be completed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/speaker-pelosi-delays-vote-on-infrastructure-bill/ar-AAOQHjc

[empedocles]

1. 'Disparate Democratic Members', or a mess of leverage happy special interests?

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/574164-democrats-scramble-to-satisfy-disparate-members-on-spending-package?userid=263162

[qazplm135]

2. good

Smart move

[tritsofme]

3. It would be difficult to delay it much further, there is must-pass transportation funding included

in the BIF, that otherwise expires on 9/30.

[qazplm135]

4. all the more reason

between that and the need to put the debt ceiling into a reconciliation bill for EVERYONE to get work, find compromises and pass both bills.

Moderates are clearly going to get large cuts to the size of the bill so let's make those cuts and enough with the "this is going too fast" or "why can't we wait" baloney.

Cut it to 1.5 or 2 trillion or whatever, and pass the damn thing.

[tritsofme]

5. It would be procedurally impossible at this point to move a reconciliation bill through the Senate

by 9/30, the BIF will have to pass first.

[qazplm135]

6. I suspect they will find a way

and no, it won't HAVE to pass first.

There's no deadline on it HAVING to pass.

Moderates should simply come to the realization that they need to pass both bills, and get to work on listing out their limits.

They are already going to win by significantly cutting the bill down, not sure why they can't be satisfied with that.