Infrastructure Read
Representative Pramila Jayapal, the leader of the Democrats’ progressive caucus, voiced optimism about passing both pieces of President Biden’s domestic agenda. Her group opposes passing an infrastructure bill until the social spending plan advances.
When the new fiscal year began on Friday, some programs covered by the stalled infrastructure bill froze and about 3,700 workers were furloughed.
The House and Senate were both expected to pass short-term spending bills to fund the government, but a planned vote on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill was in limbo amid deep party divisions.
Congress managed to keep the government from shutting down after midnight, but President Biden’s economic agenda, including a popular infrastructure bill, was ensnared in an intraparty battle.
When you’re facing a social crisis it’s time to go big.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the bipartisan infrastructure bill would be voted on later in the day but stressed that her caucus would need assurances that a larger $3.5 trillion bill would be approved later.
The game was a respite from partisan division and high drama on Capitol Hill, but talks continued from the stands and dugouts.
The House and Senate are both expected to pass short-term bills to fund the government, but a planned infrastructure vote is in limbo amid deep party divisions.
The centrist senator is key to President Biden’s agenda in Washington. Her positions have angered some Democrats back home.
The president canceled a trip to Chicago in an attempt to salvage a pair of bills containing trillions of dollars in spending on infrastructure, education, climate change and more.
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