Pelosi signals she won’t bend to outnumbered centrists in spending fight

Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t swayed after a group of centrist Democrats demanded the House take up a Senate-passed infrastructure measure when they return later this month to consider a much broader social spending bill.

The group of nine Democrats wrote to the California Democrat to warn her she won’t get their votes on a $3.5 trillion budget resolution unless the House also takes up a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. Both measures passed the Senate this week.

“We will not consider voting for a budget resolution until the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passes the House and is signed into law,” the Democrats wrote to Pelosi.

The threat would appear to sink the chances Democrats can pass the budget resolution this month because the party controls only a very slim majority and can afford to lose no more than three votes.

But Pelosi isn’t bending.

Her office is signaling to centrists that they are vastly outnumbered by the liberal wing, who make up the majority of the Democratic Caucus and who oppose voting on the infrastructure package right away.

“There are not sufficient votes to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill this month,” a top Democratic aide told the Washington Examiner, estimating “dozens upon dozens” of Democrats would vote against the bill if it came up for consideration in August.

Pelosi has promised not to bring up the infrastructure bill until the social spending legislation has been written and passed later this year.

“The votes in the House and Senate depend on us having both bills,” Pelosi told Democrats in a conference call last week.

That's right, she takes crap from no one.

This is one occassion where I actually think Pelosi and "the crew" are doing the right thing. No infrastructure without reconciliation! And no reconciliation without Dreamers!

Obviously. They know if they pass infrastructure first, than reconciliation will not pass. Bundle this shit up and hold your ground.

Old wrinklie balls of Pelosi

seems engineered. Every dem bends to Pelosi except maybe the squad. Pelosi likely told them to oppose it in the 1st place. She can then work the squad on saying "they won't budge, plz be reasonable and vote for the bipartisan bill. We pinky promise to revisit the reconciliation bill"

Thank you President Pelosi

It is not about whether she is doing the right thing or not. It is just that she is right about the current situation. There are far more Democratic Representatives that would not vote this month.

It is just math. It is stupid of these centrist Democrats to cry about it and make it a scene in public. They could have stayed quiet and said they wished Pelosi would bring it up for a vote this month if asked. Instead, they made it a public fight. Now, they will be asked more questions by reporters and others. It is stupid politics on their part.

This fkin skank raised salaries of house members, is insider trading like a mofo in the stock market and to top it off wants to spend trillions on useless sht during a collapsed economy.

Whats the point of gaining legalization if the US is going to be collapsed? Smfh

Inb4 seething NPCs.

pls tell me how insider trading and a country in 27 trillion in debt affects your daily life?
stop virtue signalling, bro. u dont give af about the stock market, insider training, and the country's debt.

you'd be first in line if they offered you legalization, you fucking pussy.

either that or you just coming back on here saying, "we are royally fucked."

mods, get this guy out the lobby. foh, ban him again.