Posted on 08/13/2021 6:02:43 AM PDT by libstripper
WASHINGTON — Nine moderate House Democrats told Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday that they will not vote for a budget resolution meant to pave the way for the passage of a $3.5 trillion social policy package later this year until a Senate-approved infrastructure bill passes the House and is signed into law.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
BTW, congrats to Weisman for writing a really good lede.
Because they know they are likely in that kind of deep do do with the voters (even though we should remember this is the Dominion voter machine era) over inflation and rising gas prices that are in turn due to this sort of Keynesian garbage that this “infrastructure” bill is.
"Moderate" Democrats? That's revealing phrase.
"Moderate" apparently means "not really a."
Sort of like moderate Republican, or moderate American.
ML/NJ
Theater to get more pork for their districts.
FReepers wishing to read the article without a trip through msnland, and all that implies, can find the original here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/us/politics/house-democrats-budget-infrastructure.html
Nine moderates among the Democrats in the Senate? That is hard to believe.
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