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Corporate Democrats Have Revealed Exactly How They’re Going to Try to Kill the Reconciliation Bill.
It’s all about leverage, and they’re already threatening to use it.
As many of us on the left have been suspecting virtually since the talks for the bipartisan infrastructure bill and reconciliation spending plan began, corporate Democrats would find a way to try and kill it. I haven’t been able to shake the sinking feeling that it was going to be used as nothing more than a means by which corporate democrats can get progressives in the house to vote for the infrastructure bill, and nothing more. Well, as expected, here we are, and corporate Democrats have revealed exactly how they plan to kill it.
RollCall reporter Lindsey McPherson tweeted:
“I’m hearing that at least 8–10 moderate House Democrats are privately expressing willingness to vote against the budget resolution if Pelosi does not schedule a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill first…This comes as Pelosi reiterated on a Democratic Caucus call Wednesday her plan to hold the bipartisan infrastructure bill until…
