The speaker said she would need to demonstrate to progressives that the House and Senate were on a path to passing the other piece of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, a sweeping tax and spending package expected to contain funding for progressive priorities like climate programs, paid leave, child and home health care, affordable housing and more.
Democrats plan to pass that package through the filibuster-proof budget reconciliation process to alleviate the need for Republican votes. They can’t afford to lose a single Democratic vote in the Senate or more than three in the House. Progressives are worried centrist Democrats won’t support the multi-trillion reconciliation package if the infrastructure bill passes first.
“It's impossible, though, to persuade people to vote for the [infrastructure bill] without the reassurances that the reconciliation bill will occur, and it will,” Pelosi said.
To provide those reassurances, she said she and Biden are continuing to negotiate with the Senate in hopes of securing some kind of agreement on the path forward for reconciliation that she can present to House Democrats.
“We're on a path to have something that I can say to my colleagues with integrity and certainty is the path we're on,” Pelosi said, omitting specifics of what that “something” might include.
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