Posted on 08/23/2021 3:01:12 AM PDT by 11th_VA
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is staring down the nine centrist lawmakers demanding an immediate vote on the bipartisan infrastructure package — all but daring them to sink President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
White House officials and congressional leaders have been pressing the nine throughout the weekend to withdraw their threat to vote against consideration of the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package but the lawmakers aren't budging.
“Right now, the position of the nine is we are not going to vote for the budget resolution until we get the BIF done,” Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-Ga.) told Axios, referring to the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
“When you eat an apple, you eat it one bite at the time," she said. "We need to take the first bite, chew it and digest it and get to the next bite.”
White House and congressional officials are confident they'll eventually force the nine to back down on this week's procedural vote, though some of the nine have substantive objectives to spending an additional $3.5 trillion.
The big picture: The nine lawmakers want the House to vote first on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan bill, which includes $550 billion in new spending on roads, bridges and broadband.
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have been privately advising the House centrists — led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), head of the Problem Solvers Caucus — about how to negotiate with the White House and congressional leaders.
The House breaks from a seven-week recess on Monday to consider the spending plans. On Saturday, Pelosi reiterated her dual-track approach in a “Dear Colleague” letter, indicating she wouldn't blink.
“The House is hard at work to enact both the Build Back Better plan and the bipartisan infrastructure bill before October 1st, when BIF would go into effect," she wrote.
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In the end they will fold. No surprises here.
They’re all losing their seats anyway. Voting for the full pork barrel at least let’s them into the Rat feeding trough after the voters retire them next year.
Speak English much, yahoos? "Staring down" means inspiring an adversary to concede, simply by staring at him. When you read the actual story, the 9 heretics against Mrs. Pelosi-Stalin have not conceded at all. But the yahoos prematurely wanted to make her sound cool and powerfuller than life, apparently. Creating a separate reality through headlines.
I don't know what will happen in the end, but for now, Mrs. P-S is just stark, staring mad as usual.
BOHICA
They are openly toting this globalist commie plan. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/9/great-reset-corporate-communism-and-its-coming-ame/
Disappointing to say the least that Rep. Crenshaw is a WEFtard as well.
And that's just her come hither look...(shudder)
There are no “centrist” Demonrats. Either they’re full on Marxists or Stalinists (with a growing number of Maoist & Pol Potists).
Crenshaw outed himself a long time ago. He looked so good on paper...
“When you eat an apple, you eat it one bite at the time,”
Fabian Communism.
Pelosi is finding out just how unimportant she is the squad wants her head in a basket.
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