{"id":41640,"date":"2021-10-28T15:23:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41640"},"modified":"2021-10-28T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:23:52","slug":"liberals-defy-pelosi-say-theyll-block-infrastructure-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41640","title":{"rendered":"Liberals defy Pelosi, say they&#8217;ll block infrastructure bill"},"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\">Liberals on Thursday vowed to block a popular infrastructure bill \u2014\u00a0a central piece of\u00a0President Biden\u2019s domestic agenda \u2014 just hours after the president urged their support and Speaker\u00a0Nancy Pelosi\u00a0(D-Calif.) announced plans to bring the bipartisan proposal to the House floor for a vote the same day.<\/p>\n<p>The move by dozens of members in the Congressional Progressive Caucus was hardly a departure of tactics: Rep.\u00a0Pramila Jayapal\u00a0(D-Wash.), who chairs the group, has said for months that liberals would oppose the infrastructure bill until there was a concrete agreement with Democratic centrists on a larger social spending package.<\/p>\n<p>Still, their decision to hold that line constitutes a remarkable escalation of the high-stakes power struggle between Pelosi and the progressive members of her own caucus, who said they simply can\u2019t back the infrastructure bill without greater assurances that a larger social spending bill will contain their priorities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals on Thursday vowed to block&#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-41640","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\/41640","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=41640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41641,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41640\/revisions\/41641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}