{"id":819913,"date":"2021-09-27T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=819913"},"modified":"2021-09-27T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:28:46","slug":"pelosi-delays-critical-infrastructure-vote-as-bills-fate-remains-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-delays-critical-infrastructure-vote-as-bills-fate-remains-in-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Delays Critical Infrastructure Vote As Bill\u2019s Fate Remains In Jeopardy"},"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%2Fpelosi-delays-critical-infrastructure-vote-as-bills-fate-remains-in-jeopardy%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=819913&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--><p>Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed the House\u2019s vote on the bipartisan infrastructure framework to Thursday, giving Democrats more time as they try to unify behind it and their $3.5 trillion spending package.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi told her caucus in a Dear Colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/92621-0\">letter<\/a> Sunday that the vote will now take place on the day surface transportation funds expire instead of Monday, the date originally set. However, the House will begin debating the bill today, as agreed upon in August when the House <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/democrats-house-of-representatives-joe-biden-budget-infrastructure-stalemate-nancy-pelosi-moderates-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advanced<\/a>&nbsp;the Democrats\u2019 budget.<\/p>\n<p>The two bills have been the driving forces behind the growing divide between the Democratic Party\u2019s left and moderate wings; while moderates have insisted on passing the bipartisan bill first, those further to the left have said that both bills must move together, even vowing to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/22\/11-democratic-senators-back-progressives-vow-tank-infrastructure-bill-without-budget-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tank the public works package<\/a> unless the budget passes first.<\/p>\n<p>The infrastructure bill only needs House passage before heading to President Joe Biden\u2019s desk. The budget, which includes the bulk of his domestic agenda, must get House and Senate approval, an arduous process that includes at least one more vote-a-rama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany thanks to our Caucus for making this an historic opportunity for our Country, as we honor President Biden\u2019s vision for the future by passing his legislative agenda,\u201d Pelosi wrote. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/07\/democrats-all-in-budget-joe-biden-congressional-majorities-passage-far-from-certain-budget-reconciliation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Democrats Are All-In On The Largest Budget In History. It\u2019s Passage Is Far From Certain)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7290258\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7290258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden on the South Lawn of the White House Friday. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pelosi also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/26\/you-need-98-or-99-george-stephanopoulos-presses-pelosi-democratic-divisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> ABC News Sunday that despite the brief delay, the House was \u201cgoing to pass the bill this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m never bringing a bill to the floor that doesn\u2019t have the votes,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi said that the House will pass the budget this week as well, though it is not yet finished, and her party\u2019s separate wings have disagreements related to its size and scope. Other Democrats have also insisted that the budget contain specific provisions they have prioritized, like a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/07\/state-and-local-taxes-moderates-budget-tax-cut-rich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SALT tax cap repeal<\/a> or a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/20\/senate-parliamentarian-blocks-pathway-citizenship-democrats-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pathway to citizenship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congress must also pass a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/house-democrats-pass-government-funding-debt-ceiling-bill-dead-on-arrival-senate-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">government funding bill<\/a> before Friday to prevent a shutdown, and it has until mid to late October to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/13\/congress-barrels-toward-debt-ceiling-catastrophe-janet-yellen-chuck-schumer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raise the debt limit<\/a> to avoid a potential nationwide debt default.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed the House\u2019s vote on the bipartisan infrastructure framework to Thursday, giving Democrats more time as they try to unify behind it and their $3.5 trillion spending &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819913","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\/819913","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=819913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819913\/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=819913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}