Progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives, led by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are threatening to blow up a bipartisan infrastructure agreement if the Senate does not pass a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.
Ocasio-Cortez claimed on Sunday that she had “more than enough” votes to tank the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Ohio Sen. Rob Portman introduced last Monday. Sinema pledged on July 28 not to “support a bill that costs $3.5 trillion,” leading Ocasio-Cortez to imply that she deliberately created an all-white group of senators to negotiate the package.
Sinema is not the only Senate Democrat to express concerns about the size of the reconciliation package. Her fellow Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly told reporters that he wants to see it paid for before he offers final approval, and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin refused to “guarantee anybody on any … pieces of legislation.”
Ocasio-Cortez and her “Squad” allies, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman, have the support of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
“Let me be really clear on this: We will not take up a bill in the House until the Senate passes the bipartisan bill and a reconciliation bill,” Pelosi told reporters in June. “If there is no bipartisan bill, then we’ll just go when the Senate passes a reconciliation bill.”
Throw ALL these Criminals OUT of OUR Congress 2021 !!!!!!
Please remove all these worthless POS from office!!!
This Childish SQUAD is Grade school !!!! Throw them the Hell OUT on their asses & make shure No More Like
them EVER get in Congress again !!! Waist of taxpayer $$$$ & time !!!
Hope she does it. Even the 1.5 trillion dollar bill is full of pork for the left.
Pelosi wants to START a Civil WAR !!!! A Race War too !!
Jail Pelosi for TREASON !!!!!!