Strap in, folks. We’re in for a bumpy ride.
The House is scheduled to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill today amid protests from progressive Democrats who are furious over the de-coupling of the legislation from the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. The progressives have sworn to shoot down BIF if it gets put to a vote today without reconciliation–and an agreement with moderates over reconciliation doesn’t seem to be close at hand.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters yesterday evening that the “plan” is still to hold the vote today, but she’s taking it “one hour at a time” after House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said he wasn’t sure if BIF had the votes needed to pass yet.
The good news is at least Congress is on track to pass a government funding bill today and avoid the shutdown that would’ve begun at midnight tonight.
Follow our coverage live:
Strap in, folks. We’re in for a bumpy ride.
The House is scheduled to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill today amid protests from progressive Democrats who are furious over the de-coupling of the legislation from the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. The progressives have sworn to shoot down BIF if it gets put to a vote today without reconciliation–and an agreement with moderates over reconciliation doesn’t seem to be close at hand.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters yesterday evening that the “plan” is still to hold the vote today, but she’s taking it “one hour at a time” after House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said he wasn’t sure if BIF had the votes needed to pass yet.
The good news is at least Congress is on track to pass a government funding bill today and avoid the shutdown that would’ve begun at midnight tonight.
Follow our coverage live:
Oh goody, infrastructure week
Waiting on you to start Joe.
very funny, joe. that’s really rich coming from you.
"I think we can get a good bill done. I really do, if we work in good faith,” he added.
Oh, and all we have to do is overhaul taxes you say, now suddenly?
Or, you can get fucked with the wide end of a garden rake. Go ahead… You’ve earned it.
This isn’t new information. He’s said all this before. Saying you want to work on “taxes” is like saying you think we need to do something about “climate”. It is such a broad statement as to be meaningless. The time for generalities was four months ago - we need specifics.