Nancy Pelosi trying to change rules to pass 3.5 trillion infrastructure AUTOMATICALLY
- 3 years ago
Last week we told you that Pelosi refused to take up the Senate-passed $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill in an effort to try and bully Senate Democrats into passing the larger and much worse 3.5 trillion dollar phony infrastructure bill.
But then Pelosi’s moderate wing hit back at her, saying they would vote against the $3.5 trillion phony infrastructure bill unless she’d allow a standalone vote on the $1.2 trillion dollar Senate bill.
That’s where things stand right now. A stalemate.
That is until last night when Pelosi called back House members to try and negotiate her way out of it, meeting with moderate leader Rep. Josh Gottheimer. What Pelosi is trying to do is change the rules so that when the smaller infrastructure bill passes, the larger one automatically passes with it. But some of these moderate Democrats don’t like that at all:
POLITICO – Deal-making between Pelosi and Gottheimer’s group began in earnest Monday night, when Gottheimer met with the top three House Democratic leaders for more than an hour after votes to discuss a deal the speaker offered. While Gottheimer was open to the offer floated by Pelosi, some other members of his group were opposed after he presented the contours of the deal to his handful of fellow holdouts, according to Democrats familiar with the conversations.
Several of the moderates were particularly incensed by a wonky maneuver that would wrap consideration of the ground rules of debate and the budget resolution itself into one vote, rather than the original plan that required two votes to advance the spending bill. After a few of them balked at Pelosi’s initial offer, Gottheimer returned for his second round of meetings with leadership and then shuttled back to his fellow centrists.
The pushback also grew in size Monday, as Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) announced her opposition to moving ahead on the budget framework without first passing the infrastructure bill. Murphy’s opposition was not a surprise to leadership as she had been quietly trying to hammer out a deal for several days in tandem with Gottheimer’s public effort.
When Pelosi’s negotiations failed last night, she and her top Dems tried to make an emotional appeal for unity:
As the group of moderates debated what to do, Pelosi and her leadership team made an aggressive pitch for Democratic unity in a caucus meeting that ran high with emotions.
“We cannot squander this majority and this Democratic White House by not passing what we need to do,” Pelosi told Democrats in a private caucus meeting Monday. “Right now, we have an opportunity to pass something so substantial for our country, so transformative we haven’t seen anything like it.”
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer followed her, telling Democrats they needed to “come to grips” with the situation and band together or else nothing would get accomplished.
“We need to trust one another … this is mutually assured destruction,” Hoyer said.
“You all have to vote for the goddamn r
But then Pelosi’s moderate wing hit back at her, saying they would vote against the $3.5 trillion phony infrastructure bill unless she’d allow a standalone vote on the $1.2 trillion dollar Senate bill.
That’s where things stand right now. A stalemate.
That is until last night when Pelosi called back House members to try and negotiate her way out of it, meeting with moderate leader Rep. Josh Gottheimer. What Pelosi is trying to do is change the rules so that when the smaller infrastructure bill passes, the larger one automatically passes with it. But some of these moderate Democrats don’t like that at all:
POLITICO – Deal-making between Pelosi and Gottheimer’s group began in earnest Monday night, when Gottheimer met with the top three House Democratic leaders for more than an hour after votes to discuss a deal the speaker offered. While Gottheimer was open to the offer floated by Pelosi, some other members of his group were opposed after he presented the contours of the deal to his handful of fellow holdouts, according to Democrats familiar with the conversations.
Several of the moderates were particularly incensed by a wonky maneuver that would wrap consideration of the ground rules of debate and the budget resolution itself into one vote, rather than the original plan that required two votes to advance the spending bill. After a few of them balked at Pelosi’s initial offer, Gottheimer returned for his second round of meetings with leadership and then shuttled back to his fellow centrists.
The pushback also grew in size Monday, as Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) announced her opposition to moving ahead on the budget framework without first passing the infrastructure bill. Murphy’s opposition was not a surprise to leadership as she had been quietly trying to hammer out a deal for several days in tandem with Gottheimer’s public effort.
When Pelosi’s negotiations failed last night, she and her top Dems tried to make an emotional appeal for unity:
As the group of moderates debated what to do, Pelosi and her leadership team made an aggressive pitch for Democratic unity in a caucus meeting that ran high with emotions.
“We cannot squander this majority and this Democratic White House by not passing what we need to do,” Pelosi told Democrats in a private caucus meeting Monday. “Right now, we have an opportunity to pass something so substantial for our country, so transformative we haven’t seen anything like it.”
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer followed her, telling Democrats they needed to “come to grips” with the situation and band together or else nothing would get accomplished.
“We need to trust one another … this is mutually assured destruction,” Hoyer said.
“You all have to vote for the goddamn r