{"id":806289,"date":"2021-09-23T13:44:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=806289"},"modified":"2021-09-23T13:44:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:44:26","slug":"ilhan-omar-says-conservative-democrats-are-holding-progressives-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-says-conservative-democrats-are-holding-progressives-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilhan Omar Says \u2018Conservative Democrats\u2019 Are Holding Progressives \u2018Hostage\u2019"},"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\">18<\/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%2Filhan-omar-says-conservative-democrats-are-holding-progressives-hostage%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=806289&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\/09\/GettyImages-1163747239.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Thursday accused \u201cconservative Democrats\u201d of holding progressives like herself \u201chostage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Omar made the remarks on <em>The Dean Obeidallah Show&nbsp;<\/em>on Thursday, saying that more conservative members of her party are to blame for slowing down the passage of President Joe Biden\u2019s $3.5 trillion spending package.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s gonna happen if you can\u2019t have a vote on Monday, on the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, or some version of that? Is there going to be a vote on this bipartisan loan, is that actually gonna happen?\u201d Dean Obeidallah asked Omar on his show.<\/p>\n<p>Omar, who serves as the Congressional Progressive Caucus whip, responded that she believes more than half of the progressive caucus is ready to \u201cvote this bill down if there is a change in strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenate progressive leaders put out a statement today reminding conservative Democrats that there was a deal made, and the deal was that we will support the infrastructure bill if they supported the reconciliation budget resolution,\u201d Omar said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they go back on their deal, we\u2019re going back on our deal,\u201d she vowed. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think anybody wants that to happen because it doesn\u2019t benefit any one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s $3.5 trillion social spending bill has been the subject of infighting among progressive and more moderate Democrats. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), the Senate\u2019s most moderate Democrat, has said he will not vote for the legislation. Meanwhile, some progressive Democrats like Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), are saying they will not support a spending bill that is less than $3.5 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI and many progressives continue to remind our caucus and senators that the Biden agenda is our agenda, is the agenda of the people,\u201d Omar said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProgressives \u2026 have made lots of compromises to get us here, and you know, we are currently being held hostage by conservative Democrats who are doing the bidding of Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Wall Street,\u201d the congresswoman added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I am optimistic that we will overcome and we will deliver on behalf of the American people,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s mammoth spending bill spreads the spending out over a decade, unlike last year\u2019s emergency COVID relief bills, which mostly included immediate disbursements of aid to help Americans weather the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have the need to rush into this and get it done within one week because there\u2019s some deadline we\u2019re meeting or someone\u2019s going to fall through the cracks,\u201d Manchin said earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make sure that children are getting taken care of, that people are basically having an opportunity to go back to work. We have 11 million jobs that we haven\u2019t filled, 8 million people still unemployed. Something\u2019s not matching up there,\u201d the West Virginia senator continued.<\/p>\n<p>The fight over this part of Biden\u2019s agenda comes as Biden is coming off a difficult month for his administration, during which he had to weather several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chrisdorsey\/2021\/08\/23\/afghanistan-debacle-exposes-bidens-inability-to-govern\/?sh=706df5715d77\">negative<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/20\/bidens-growing-struggle-live-up-promises-restoring-us-ties-with-allies\/\">headlines<\/a> and sinking job approval numbers.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Thursday accused \u201cconservative Democrats\u201d of holding progressives like herself \u201chostage.\u201dOmar made the remarks on The Dean Obeidallah Show\u00a0on Thursday, saying that more conservative members of &#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-806289","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\/806289","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=806289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806289\/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=806289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}