Pelosi Delays Critical Infrastructure Vote As Bill’s Fate Remains In Jeopardy

Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed the House’s vote on the bipartisan infrastructure framework to Thursday, giving Democrats more time as they try to unify behind it and their $3.5 trillion spending package.

Pelosi told her caucus in a Dear Colleague letter Sunday that the vote will now take place on the day surface transportation funds expire instead of Monday, the date originally set. However, the House will begin debating the bill today, as agreed upon in August when the House advanced the Democrats’ budget.

The two bills have been the driving forces behind the growing divide between the Democratic Party’s left and moderate wings; while moderates have insisted on passing the bipartisan bill first, those further to the left have said that both bills must move together, even vowing to tank the public works package unless the budget passes first.

The infrastructure bill only needs House passage before heading to President Joe Biden’s desk. The budget, which includes the bulk of his domestic agenda, must get House and Senate approval, an arduous process that includes at least one more vote-a-rama.

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