{"id":37000,"date":"2021-06-28T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T22:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37000"},"modified":"2021-06-28T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T22:14:35","slug":"biden-pelosi-on-collision-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37000","title":{"rendered":"Biden, Pelosi on collision course"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">President Biden and Speaker\u00a0Nancy Pelosi\u00a0(D-Calif.) are on a collision course, at least at the moment, as they race to realize their sweeping infrastructure agenda heading into next year&#8217;s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>The two Democratic heavyweights face identical pressures, as both are under enormous strain from their party\u2019s liberal base to make sure a big social spending agenda isn\u2019t undercut or even torpedoed by work on a bipartisan infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<p>But there are also subtly different motivations for Biden, a centrist who is not up for reelection until 2024 and vowed to break Washington\u2019s fever by working with Republicans, and Pelosi, the veteran liberal leader with a narrow House majority dominated by progressive voices.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden and Speaker\u00a0Nancy Pelosi\u00a0(D-Calif.) are&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37001,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37000\/revisions\/37001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}