Pelosi sets up risky House vote to deem $3.5T budget approved
| Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her leadership team are pressing forward with a risky strategy Monday to move forward on key parts of President Biden’s domestic agenda while refusing to bend to demands from a handful of centrists.
The plan would see the House vote on a rule Monday night that would deem a $3.5 trillion budget as adopted, while setting up a process for considering a bipartisan infrastructure bill approved by the Senate. The strategy is risky because 10 centrist Democrats have said they will not back the $3.5 billion budget without voting first on the infrastructure bill. It is not clear these Democrats will vote for the rule deeming the budget as being adopted. |
