Pelosi shoots down revolt by conservative Democrats: Congress backs 'totality' of Biden's vision

[turbinetree]

By Bob Brigham
Published August 14, 2021

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday responded to a revolt by conservative Democrats in message praising Social Security.

"A group of nine moderate House Democrats told Speaker Nancy Pelosi that they will not vote for a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint until a Senate-approved infrastructure bill clears the chamber, a posture that underscored significant divisions within the party that could undermine President Biden's economic agenda," The Washington Post reported Friday.

"The demand on Friday threatened to leave the House in a new political deadlock, roughly two weeks before lawmakers are set to return to the Capitol to begin debate. Liberal Democrats have demanded the opposite timeline, leaving Pelosi (D-CA) in a tough bind given that Democrats have a narrow majority and few votes to spare," the newspaper explained.

https://www.rawstory.com/pelosi-infrastructure/

[CentralMass]

1. Well. Except for that college loan foregivness bit.

[totodeinhere]

2. She may shoot it down but she only has a three vote margin.

A coalition of nine Democrats plus the Republicans could sink that bill forever.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Headline (which is RawStory's, not OP's) is a bit misleading...

It says "shoots down" in the sense of "publicly opposed," not the sense of "got them to agree to support the budget."

Now that she's opposed them, it remains to be seen whether they will fold their cards or hold out and prevent any budget bill from passing unless they get their way...which would, in itself, pretty much kill any infrastructure achievements.

Right now, the ball is in the ConservaDems' court, and the outcome is anything but clear.

[Elessar Zappa]

11. I would bet money

that we’ll get a good bill. It very well may be negotiated down from 3.5 trillion but it will still be a big win for the country.

[questionseverything]

17. If those nine want to kill the child credits, good luck being re elected

[Deuxcents]

4. I'm wondering..

Do we realize what a treasure she is? Her knowledge and experience is priceless..imo. I don’t always agree with her. But I so admire her . Who is she mentoring? She’s 81 now and who is able to or qualified to carry on ? No one can ever replace her..I’m just thankful I’m here still to witness the stealth and command she has of our constitution she loves so much. Getting sappy..sorry..

[questionseverything]

5. If it was aoc and the squad undermining the speaker,

Some on du would loudly and constantly berate them

But

Evidently conservative democrats screwing with president Biden’s agenda must be ok cause I don’t see that very vocal group of du ers protesting at all

[Sewa]

6. Telling isn't it

💀🤙

[FoxNewsSucks]

14. It certainly is

[jimfields33]

8. This is the first time this is happening

Plus. We have no idea of the outcome.

[Sewa]

9. No it's the second

They killed the eviction bill. And AOC was attacked here for calling them out. 💀🤙

[jimfields33]

12. Oh ok. I forgot. Thanks!

[dsc]

15. they killed the House passing one

but the Senate never would have passed it anyhow. Frankly there is a ton of blame to go around on that. No matter what one thinks of the SCOTUS position on this they were clear. Any thing like a permanent solution will take an act of Congress and that should have been planned for over a month ago.

[Bettie]

13. Right? Even if bills pass

they berate the more liberal members of congress.

They are strangely silent about these particular members.

Weird. I wonder what who this serves?

Isn't this the same group that opposed Nancy Pelosi for speaker?

[questionseverything]

16. Idk

President ,madam speaker and progressives all want both bills together

That’s the plan

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. Typical of Raw Story, article doesn't relate to headline

Pelosi did not comment directly on the letter from the moderates, nor on the two-track linkage of the bills, only to the Dems unity in passing Biden’s agenda.

A better, less click baity headline would have been:

“Pelosi shoots down media narrative of Dems in discord and disarray”.

[empedocles]

10. All Dems need to support the Speaker in these treacherous times.

[Seems tempting for various caucuses to get a short term gain given the 3 vote margin problem].