After striking a deal to quell party infighting, House Democrats on Thursday adopted the massive $3.5 trillion budget blueprint by a vote of 220-212 along party lines.
The vote allows Democrats to adopt a rule allowing them to immediately begin work on the legislation, and will require the lower chamber to take up the Senate-passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill no later than Sept. 27.
As The Hill notes, the rule also clears the way for the House to vote later Tuesday on legislation to restore a portion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act which required localities with ‘histories of voter suppression’ to receive federal clearance before making changes to election laws.
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The deal Pelosi reached on Tuesday provides a brief detente between Democratic moderates and progressives as House lawmakers leave Washington to resume their summer recess.
But the internecine sniping over process, strategy and timing foreshadows just how difficult it will be for the party to stay united when it comes to turning their policy goals into law in the coming weeks as they seek to show voters that they can govern.
House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) said that writing the legislative text for some components of the $3.5 trillion spending plan, such as making changes to Medicare benefits, will be “relatively easy to do” since those programs already exist.
But policy goals like creating a new universal child care program will be much more challenging to craft because “you have nothing structurally to use to implement it,” Yarmuth acknowledged.
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Moderate Democrats have finally agreed to a deal with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to move forward with their party’s $4.1 trillion economic plan, according to Bloomberg, citing a lawmaker involved in the negotiations.
Nothing but a liberals wet dream. God help the USA
Notice they took the money and ran with Bidens disgraceful and resign worthy actions in Afghanistan. They wanted to ensure that America followed in the the horrific downfall of his never earned Presidency. They should all resign in disgrace.