The Work Continues After Progressives Rescue Two-Track Infrastructure Plan

October 5, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 01: President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) leave a House Democratic Caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 in Washington, DC. The President calle... WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 01: President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) leave a House Democratic Caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 in Washington, DC. The President called the meeting in order to push through an impasse with his $1 trillion infrastructure plan. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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October 5, 2021

Negotiations over the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill for President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan are back on after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ultimately declined to bring the bipartisan infrastructure bill (BIF) to a vote last week due to progressives’ threat to sink it if it were put to a vote before the reconciliation package is ready.

The White House and Democratic leaders are working to hammer out a deal with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), who both complain that the price for reconciliation — $3.5 trillion — is too high. Manchin’s put his top line at $1.5 trillion, and Sinema has yet to say publicly what she wants.

Pelosi told her Democratic colleagues on Saturday that she wants to pass BIF before October 31.

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Negotiations over the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill for President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan are back on after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ultimately declined to bring the bipartisan infrastructure bill (BIF) to a vote last week due to progressives’ threat to sink it if it were put to a vote before the reconciliation package is ready.

The White House and Democratic leaders are working to hammer out a deal with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), who both complain that the price for reconciliation — $3.5 trillion — is too high. Manchin’s put his top line at $1.5 trillion, and Sinema has yet to say publicly what she wants.

Pelosi told her Democratic colleagues on Saturday that she wants to pass BIF before October 31.

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  1. TPM. Is this Morning Memo Part Two? Not much news here either. We covered the Sinema moment yesterday.

    I just had an idea. Fire your cut paste journalists and hire us. We come cheap. No overhead.

  2. I don’t know why the F*ck we ever started even talking about infrastructure.

    It is needed sure but moot as F*ck if we don’t act on voting rights.

    We are wasting Joe’s political capital on things Republicans will take away in 2024 after they complete their government coup.

    We won’t have any capital left to push a solid Voing rights package after this BS.

    Jaypal and company should switch and say forget the reconciliation package, tell Manchin and Sinema that instead we want their support to set aside filibuster for a updated voting rights acts that kills gerrymandering, preclearance for all states on election laws, establishes uniform minimum structure for federal election administration.

    None of this will cost money so no need to preen about moderation and inflation.

    If we fix election law we can get the rest and more in 2022,

    if not, it is time to seriously consider the possibility that the US needs to separate and what your blue state can do to prepare

  3. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that President Joe Biden went to Capitol Hill to discuss the infrastructure and reconciliation bills with Democrats because he “wasn’t going to stand by the sideline and issue tweets.

  4. If we don’t have more than one absentee ballot dropbox per county, Democrats are DOOOMMEDD!

    Apologies for the mockery, but I feel obligated to remind folks from time to time that basically all the state-level legislation is doing is redressing Trump’s 2020 election procedures grievances. And much of it is self-defeating, like making it harder for seniors to vote by mail.

  5. This is why, unless something huge happens, we have the only two ‘new’ stories we’re gonna get today on TPM. It’s only 10a eastern time, and it will be squibs for the rest of the day (AKA, blog posts).

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