House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may abandon a plan to take up President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure package on Thursday due to potentially insurmountable opposition from a faction of liberal lawmakers.
Pelosi told reporters following a closed-door meeting with fellow Democrats that she’s not sticking to any timetable despite a pledge she’d hold a vote on the infrastructure bill by the end of September.
“I can’t keep a commitment that the Senate has made impossible to do,” the California Democrat said when reporters asked about the plan to vote on the infrastructure bill by Thursday.
Pelosi is under pressure from a faction of House liberals to postpone a vote on the infrastructure measure until both the House and Senate pass a much larger social welfare spending package that would cost up to $3.5 trillion.
Pelosi could postpone Thursday infrastructure vote
- by: Susan Ferrechio
- 2021-09-29
- Source:
Washington Examiner
- 09/29/2021
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