{"id":630083,"date":"2021-08-10T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T18:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=630083"},"modified":"2021-08-10T14:50:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T18:50:28","slug":"psaki-defends-pelosis-decision-to-sit-on-vital-infrastructure-during-ongoing-budget-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-defends-pelosis-decision-to-sit-on-vital-infrastructure-during-ongoing-budget-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Defends Pelosi\u2019s Decision To Sit On \u2018Vital\u2019 Infrastructure During Ongoing Budget Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-defends-pelosis-decision-to-sit-on-vital-infrastructure-during-ongoing-budget-battle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=630083&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CBS-News-screenshot-1-e1628620146242.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"41.168316831683\">\n<p>Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed White House press secretary Jen Psaki during Tuesday\u2019s press briefing on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s decision to wait on \u201cvital\u201d infrastructure investments until the Senate passes a larger infrastructure package through budget reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"subtitle101\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"101\" data-start=\"432598\" data-end=\"433832\">\u201cWhen you talk about vital<\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"subtitle102\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"102\" data-start=\"433900\" data-end=\"435200\">investments, if it is so vital, why is [President Joe Biden] OK<\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"subtitle103\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"103\" data-start=\"435268\" data-end=\"440238\">waiting for the House to pick it up until reconciliation is<\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"subtitle104\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"104\" data-start=\"440339\" data-end=\"445343\">done?\u201d Doocy <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/03\/infrastructure-legislation-pandemic-business-tax-credit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked<\/a>. \u201cWhy not just ask Speaker Pelosi, we need to do this, these bridges are crumbling, people need clean drinking water now?\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/08\/infrastructure-bill-advances-senate-overcoming-filibuster-chuck-schumer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Infrastructure Bill Set To Sail Through The Senate After Beating Final Filibuster)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Psaki described the items addressed in the infrastructure bill as \u201clong overdue\u201d and said that the White House is \u201cconfident and comfortable\u201d with Pelosi\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"subtitle105\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"105\" data-start=\"445545\" data-end=\"462093\">\u201cWell, these are vital because they are long overdue, and it\u2019s important to modernize our infrastructure and make sure kids have access to clean drinking water,\u201d Psaki said. \u201cIt\u2019s also designed as a plan that would be implemented over the course of eight years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"subtitle106\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"106\" data-start=\"462161\" data-end=\"464896\">\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be a huge injection immediately in the<\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"subtitle107\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"107\" data-start=\"464964\" data-end=\"472771\">economy, to go back to your prior question,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd we are confident and comfortable with the<\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"subtitle108\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"108\" data-start=\"472839\" data-end=\"473605\">strategic approach of Speaker Pelosi.<\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"subtitle109\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"109\" data-start=\"473673\" data-end=\"475173\">The president of course looks forward to signing each of these pieces of<\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"subtitle110\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"110\" data-start=\"475241\" data-end=\"479044\">legislation into law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/10\/senate-passes-infrastructure-package-dozen-republicans-join-dems-kyrsten-sinema-rob-portman-joe-biden\/\">passed<\/a> its bipartisan infrastructure bill on Tuesday. The $1.2 trillion bill is the largest investment in American infrastructure since the 1950s, and senators are now poised to take up Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 $3.5 trillion budget resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Every Democrat and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/25\/jerry-moran-joe-biden-lindsey-graham-mitch-mcconnell\/\">19 Republicans<\/a> voted in favor of the bipartisan bill passed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed White House press secretary Jen Psaki during Tuesday\u2019s press briefing on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s decision to wait on \u201cvital\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}