Nancy Pelosi wants to vote on Biden's sweeping domestic spending plan as soon as Thursday evening. First she has to convince moderate holdouts.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to vote on President Joe Biden's sweeping domestic spending plan as soon as Thursday evening. First she has to convince moderate holdouts who want more time to digest the $1.75 trillion bill.
Five moderates have publicly declared they’d be unwilling to back the full bill until Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeepers can prove that the legislation will be fully paid for, but privately more centrists have aired the same grievance. Their resistance, alongside lingering questions about the social spending plan's treatment of immigration and paid leave provisions that face a grim Senate future, makes the legislation's path to a House floor vote even harder.
House Democrats are making yet another forceful push to vote this week after making progress in several key areas of contention, which includes immigration as well as concerns over whether the bill would be fully paid for. Pelosi and her leadership team believe they are on a path to winning over a trio of Democrats who have refused to back the bill without immigration reforms, after a day of frenetic meetings on Wednesday.
"There needs to be some level of understanding as to whether or not this bill, as written, can survive the Senate’s procedural process," said Rep. Stephanie Murphy , a centrist leader. “They’ve been very, very strong in their opinions. And there are some protections for undocumented people in in the legislation,” Butterfield said. House Administration Chair Zoe Lofgren told Democrats in their Thursday meeting a pathway to citizenship, a long-sought goal for Democrats, would not be in their legislation — a push that had drawn fierce pushback from moderates.Latino Democrats who had pushed for more immigration provisions seemed to be coming on board with the plan.
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