{"id":805988,"date":"2021-09-23T12:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T16:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=805988"},"modified":"2021-09-23T12:28:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T16:28:33","slug":"democrats-have-reached-agreement-on-a-framework-for-reconciliation-schumer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-have-reached-agreement-on-a-framework-for-reconciliation-schumer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Have \u2018Reached Agreement On A Framework\u2019 For Reconciliation, Schumer Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fdemocrats-have-reached-agreement-on-a-framework-for-reconciliation-schumer-says%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=805988&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><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"51.323039414872\">\n<p>Following a series of meetings between President Joe Biden and moderate and left-wing members of the Democratic Party, members have \u201creached agreement on a framework\u201d for reconciliation, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The framework \u201cwill pay for any final negotiated agreement, so the revenue side we have an agreement on,\u201d Schumer said.<\/p>\n<p>Both Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi declined to give total dollar amounts for the reconciliation package, but Pelosi added that Democrats \u201cwanted to make sure it was paid for. I\u2019m a pay-go person. Pay as you go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made great progress this morning because it\u2019s in the writing. You know you hear everyone come out talking about one thing or another, but we are writing legislation,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cWhen you are writing legislation you have to be specific.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nancy Pelosi Holds Weekly Press Conference | NBC News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LknKuVB4mDg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi and Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/22\/joe-biden-meets-feuding-democratic-wings-agenda-on-the-line\/\">met<\/a> with President Joe Biden on Wednesday to discuss the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act, which Democrats intend to pass via the reconciliation process. Biden also met with a group of moderate Democrats led by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer. They have expressed concern about the overall price of the legislation as well as provisions like a cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction. Manchin in particular has \u201cbig problems\u201d with climate provisions in the reconciliation package, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2021\/09\/23\/inside-the-room-of-bidens-talks-with-dems-494444\">told<\/a> Politico.<\/p>\n<p>The moderates have threatened to oppose the Build Back Better Act unless the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) passes the House first. The Progressive Caucus, led by Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, is threatening to block the IIJA if the reconciliation package does not pass the House. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/22\/pramila-jayapal-progressive-caucus-moderates-crash-entire-democratic-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Jayapal Accuses Moderates Of Being \u2018Willing To Crash Entire Democratic Agenda\u2019)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/iija-bipartisan-vote-sept-27-steny-hoyer-nancy-pelosi-reconciliation\/\">announced<\/a> on Tuesday that the IIJA would receive a floor vote on Monday, Sept. 27, in keeping with a promise Pelosi made to Gottheimer. Despite receiving 19 Republican votes in the Senate, GOP leadership in the House is whipping against the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Jayapal has said that more than half of the Progressive Caucus is prepared to block the IIJA, and her members have the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/22\/11-democratic-senators-back-progressives-vow-tank-infrastructure-bill-without-budget-first\/\">support<\/a> of eleven left-wing Democrats in the Senate. Those senators claimed in a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USProgressives\/status\/1440764066801192963\">letter<\/a> that passing the IIJA without the Build Back Better Act would \u201cundercut the President\u2019s proposals.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a series of meetings between President Joe Biden and moderate and left-wing members of the Democratic Party, members have \u201creached agreement on a framework\u201d for reconciliation, Senate &#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-805988","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\/805988","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=805988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805988\/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=805988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}