task0778
Diamond Member
This is what's going on today within the Democratic Party:
The upshot is, the progressives won't vote for the smaller bipartisan bill and the moderates won't vote for the larger bill at least until they get a report from the CBO concerning what it will cost.
Note that the larger bill is over 2100 pages and nobody has read it but Pelosi tried to pass it anyway. Figures.
You have to wonder if some of those democrats who saw what happened in Virginia and New Jersey this week might be a little antsy to pass that big spending social spending bill. Will they wimp out at the last minute? They usually do, and get their asses kicked in the next election.
I don't think whatever the House Dems do will get through the Senate anyway.
- Top House Democrats expected to have the votes to pass both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and their massive reconciliation spending bill Friday.
- But they appear to have dropped that plan after moderates demanded a CBO score on the bill before voting on it -- something that will take potentially until Thanksgiving.
- Now the House plans to take a procedural vote to advance -- but not pass -- the reconciliation bill, and to finally pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
The upshot is, the progressives won't vote for the smaller bipartisan bill and the moderates won't vote for the larger bill at least until they get a report from the CBO concerning what it will cost.
Note that the larger bill is over 2100 pages and nobody has read it but Pelosi tried to pass it anyway. Figures.
Biden doubles down on costly agenda despite GOP victory in Virginia: LIVE UPDATES
The House passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill with a bipartisan vote Friday, ending weeks of deadlock amid infighting between the party's moderates and progressives.
www.foxnews.com
You have to wonder if some of those democrats who saw what happened in Virginia and New Jersey this week might be a little antsy to pass that big spending social spending bill. Will they wimp out at the last minute? They usually do, and get their asses kicked in the next election.
I don't think whatever the House Dems do will get through the Senate anyway.