{"id":835592,"date":"2021-10-01T14:59:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=835592"},"modified":"2021-10-01T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:59:24","slug":"biden-headed-to-congress-to-try-to-salvage-1-2t-infrastructure-bill-pelosi-whipping-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-headed-to-congress-to-try-to-salvage-1-2t-infrastructure-bill-pelosi-whipping-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Headed To Congress To Try To Salvage $1.2T Infrastructure Bill, Pelosi Whipping Votes"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fbiden-headed-to-congress-to-try-to-salvage-1-2t-infrastructure-bill-pelosi-whipping-votes%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=835592&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\/10\/Pelosi-2-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden will pay a visit to Congress Friday afternoon in a last-ditch effort to whip votes behind a $1.2T bipartisan infrastructure bill, now that progressives seemed determined to resist voting \u201cyes\u201d to pass the bill unless Senate Democrats are fully behind a separate $3.5 trillion \u201chuman infrastructure\u201d spending package.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have reportedly been desperately counting votes on the infrastructure bill since yesterday when Pelosi was forced to call off a planned vote on the measure, scheduled to take place around 6:30 pm. White House negotiators were still hard at work in Pelosi\u2019s office Thursday evening, according to sources on the ground that spoke to the Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>A deal, though, has yet to be reached, and progressives, who noted their objections to the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Thursday, appear no closer to giving their final approval on Friday unless a separate deal can be reached in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>A Senate deal seems increasingly unlikely, as well. In order to pass the $3.5 trillion spending package through reconciliation \u2014 a little-used process that allows the Senate to pass a budget-focused bill by a simple majority, rather than by a super-majority \u2014 they need all Democrats on board. Two moderates, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) say they will not vote for such a costly bill and are negotiating on a smaller, $2T bill.<\/p>\n<p>Sinema, though, returned to Arizona on Friday, likely marking an end to any serious negotiations, though she told media that she is still in contact with the White House on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>With progressives demanding Sinema and Manchin agree to pass the $3.5 trillion package before they\u2019ll sign on to the $1.2 trillion one, Pelosi appears to have called in the president himself to help handle her caucus breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPelosi is privately trying to gauge how many votes she has for a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, weighing whether to bring it to the floor,\u201d Fox News\u2019 Jacqui Heinrich said Friday. \u201cPelosi does not like to bring up votes that will fail, and progressives are still vowing to vote against the bipartisan bill unless they get not just an AGREEMENT on the social spending reconciliation package, but a VOTE on that as well. That\u2019s not possible without final text.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House has been trying to get Manchin and Sinema to agree to a $2.1T reconciliation deal, but the framework is not enough for progressives to vote for the bipartisan bill. Biden now traveling to the Hill is a significant part of this effort to get it done,\u201d Heinrich noted.<\/p>\n<p>But it is not clear whether progressives will accept a $2.1 trillion \u201cframework\u201d if they were unwilling to accept a framework with a slightly lower price tag, offered by Manchin just yesterday \u2014 and reportedly in Sen. Chuck Schumer\u2019s (D-NY) hands since mid-July, even though the House and Senate appear to have begun negotiations on the reconciliation bill just this week.<\/p>\n<p><em>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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden will pay a visit to Congress Friday afternoon in a last-ditch effort to whip votes behind a $1.2T bipartisan infrastructure bill, now that progressives seemed determined to &#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-835592","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\/835592","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=835592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835592\/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=835592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}