House Democrats break internal impasse to adopt $3.5T budget plan
| House Democrats on Tuesday rallied behind a new strategy to advance President Biden’s economic agenda, shortly after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) struck a deal with a small band of moderates who were threatening to blow up leadership’s carefully laid plans to pass trillions of dollars in federal spending.
The House voted 220-212, strictly along party lines, to adopt a rule that allows Democrats to immediately begin work on a massive $3.5 trillion social benefits package. The rule also requires the lower chamber to take up the Senate-passed bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill by Sept. 27. |
