{"id":40361,"date":"2021-09-23T17:34:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T00:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40361"},"modified":"2021-09-23T17:34:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T00:34:40","slug":"democrats-steamroll-toward-showdown-on-house-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40361","title":{"rendered":"Democrats steamroll toward showdown on House floor"},"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\">House progressives appear poised for a showdown with their own leadership team as Democrats steamroll toward a Monday vote on a Senate-passed infrastructure bill that is a key part of\u00a0President Biden\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Progressives on Thursday \u2014 one day after a high-profile White House meeting \u2014 insisted they\u2019ll vote against Biden\u2019s bipartisan infrastructure bill, which some call the \u201cBIF,\u201d if Speaker\u00a0Nancy Pelosi\u00a0(D-Calif.) goes ahead with a vote she promised to deliver to centrists in her caucus by Sept. 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BIF, alone on Monday? No \u2014 no, no, no, no, no,\u201d said freshman Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), a member of the liberal Squad. \u201cI&#8217;m still with Pramila and still with my progressive colleagues that we want to pass reconciliation before we pass the BIF. That&#8217;s still the case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pramila is Rep.\u00a0Pramila Jayapal\u00a0(D-Wash.), the head of the Progressive Caucus, who insists half of her 96-member-strong caucus will vote against the infrastructure bill if the House goes ahead with the vote and does not first move forward with a larger $3.5 trillion spending package.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House progressives appear poised for a&#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-40361","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\/40361","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=40361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40362,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361\/revisions\/40362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}