Democratic leaders slate key vote on $3.5 trillion plan amid negotiations with moderates

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Source: CNN

Democratic leaders slate key vote on $3.5 trillion plan amid negotiations with moderates

By Clare Foran, Annie Grayer, Kristin Wilson and Daniella Diaz, CNN

Updated 12:23 PM ET, Tue August 24, 2021

(CNN) House Democrats are negotiating Tuesday morning on a plan to pass a budget framework that will unlock their ability to move forward on a sweeping $3.5 trillion economic package amid a standoff that has thrown a key agenda item for President Joe Biden into jeopardy.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced the chamber will vote around 2:15 p.m. ET, Tuesday, on the rule that will advance both the Democratic-backed budget deal and the separate $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure measure, signaling the impasse with moderates seems to be winding down.

The deadlock forced House leadership into negotiations late into the evening on Monday attempting to reach a deal with moderates that would allow them to move ahead with a vote to pass the resolution, but shortly after midnight members were notified that no further votes were expected in the House for the night.

At issue: 10 moderates have demanded to first vote on a separate $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, complicating an effort by Democratic leadership to quickly approve the budget resolution. Given House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's narrow three-vote majority in the chamber, the speaker has little room for defections.




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May the force be with them.

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1. The most reliable indicator of a legislative breakthrough..

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A long line of cars parked on the East Front ready to ferry members away after they cast their vote on a potential deal.

[Budi]

2. Now it's Moderates? Last thing I read it was the "Centrists"

Pick one already.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. In truth they are Conservatives. "My way or the highway" is a conservative tactic.

You cannot negotiate with people who will not compromise. See, for example, Manchin and Sinema. Sinema has said she will not vote in favor of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package because it's "just too big," but she won't compromise on her position at all. Manchin is perfectly happy to destroy the American Experiment with his unwavering support of an arcane Senate rule put into place to do just what it's doing now -- preventing laws from passing that would protect the right to vote. In that case it involved voting rights for minorities; in this case the Repugs want to prevent anyone from voting who won't vote for their candidates.

[Budi]

8. 'My Way or the Highway' is also a tactic recently used by some liberal left groups as well.

Vote in lockstep together.

It's not just for Republicans.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. Meanwhile, Repugs try to figure out ways to take all the credit without a single GQP vote in favor.

Look at what they did with the COVID rescue plan. The typical press release said, "Help is on the way!" While that's technically true, it's totally misleading in that it implies the GQP was responsible for the law. It's just an extension of The Big Lie.

[Lovie777]

4. I don't understand why the media call them moderates . .

they are not. They are conservative Dems, and are supported by conservative groups.

[questionseverything]

7. They are supported by republicans

N/t

[padah513]

5. Looks like it's 'cut bait or fish' time

[Fiendish Thingy]

9. Well that rebellion lasted what, 12 hours?

I’m guessing the tide turned when Gottheimer saw that Pelosi had put his name on the door to a broom closet.

[Deminpenn]

10. They got a face-saving deal in writing that a vote will occur no later than

the end of September, which is when it was probably going to be anyway.