Sinema Trolls Reporter When Pressed On Progressives' Frustration

Our Choice: President Biden sets our agenda or Manchin & Sinema do

That's what this all boils down to.

I choose President Biden.

That's the only thing that makes sense since President Biden has been elected nationally on his agenda, has consulted with party leadership and has the support of the vast majority of Democrats in Congress.

In A Win For Progressives, Nancy Pelosi Raises The Bar For Infrastructure Vote

Source: Huffington Post

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested Wednesday that Democrats need to agree among themselves on the text of a major budget bill before the House can vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill. Her comments appeared to raise the bar for an infrastructure bill to move forward, making it far less likely a vote will occur on Thursday as planned.

Progressive Democrats in the House have threatened to withhold their votes from the infrastructure bill until the House and Senate also pass the Build Back Better bill, which contains major Democratic priorities on paid leave and child care.

In response to a question about the progressive threat, Pelosi implied there does need to be an agreement on “legislative language” for the budget bill in order for the infrastructure vote to occur. “I think that we come to a place where we have agreement in legislative language ― not just principal ― in legislative language that the president supports,” Pelosi said Wednesday.

Centrist Democrats have insisted the House pass the infrastructure bill this week, and a vote has been tentatively scheduled for Thursday. Party leaders have said they would pass the infrastructure bill in tandem with the budget, but in the past week Pelosi’s commitment seemed to waver, and progressives have insisted they would tank the infrastructure bill if the vote happened.

Asked Wednesday if she was specifically saying there had to be an agreement on budget bill text before the infrastructure vote, Pelosi said she wanted the two things done “simultaneously.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pelosi-infrastructure-budget_n_61547db9e4b075408bd1c326

Manchin Says He Made 'No Commitments' To Biden On Reconciliation Package

President Biden leaning hard on Manchin and Sinema at this very moment!

Nancy Pelosi Says Vote May Be Delayed On $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

Source: Yahoo News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday said she may not bring the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill to the House floor on Monday as previously planned, saying she'd rather wait to ensure it has all of the votes needed after fellow Democrats continued to tie demands to its passage.

"I'll never bring a bill to the floor that doesn't have the votes," she told ABC News "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos. "You cannot choose the date, you have to go when you have the votes, in a reasonable time, and we will."

Pelosi said Friday that she planned to bring the bill up for a vote on Monday. Although the speaker may push back the vote, she said Sunday that she still plans for it to happen sometime this week.

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/nancy-pelosi-says-vote-may-173740384.html

The President's agenda is being blocked by a "moderate" Democrat "defending" Big Pharma

House Budget Committee votes to pass the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill

Source: CNN

The House Budget Committee voted Saturday to pass the $3.5 trillion spending bill out of committee and send it to the House floor.

The vote was 20 to 17 with Democratic Rep. Scott Peters of California joining Republicans to vote against the bill. It came as a necessary step for the bill to reach the full House floor, where it can be amended.

Democrats have been struggling to pass President Joe Biden's economic agenda, including the massive tax and spending bill that would expand education, health care and childcare support, address the climate crisis and make further investments in infrastructure.
The bill has raised concerns among moderates who worry some of the measures, including on drug pricing and climate, go too far, as progressives say they've already compromised enough. Republicans are united in their opposition to it.

During its Saturday meeting, the House Budget committee could not change what other committees have already voted to approve.

This story has been updated with additional information.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/25/politics/house-budget-committee-biden-economic-agenda/index.html

Democrats should not be cutting, watering down or resisting Biden's agenda

President Biden has proposed a 3.5T "Build Back Better" agenda after consultation with all wings of the Democratic party.

Since President Biden, and VP Harris of course, is the Democrat with a national mandate, why is ANY Democrat in congress publicly disagreeing with his agenda at this point in time?

The media is already harping on the "Democrats in Disarray" meme, why is any elected Democratic feeding into it?

As a progressive, I am truly baffled. Progressives and moderates have ALREADY both compromised on which programs to push for.

Why are some Democrats still insisting on more cuts that would weaken the remaining vital programs?

Why are other Democrats willing to concede that?

I am truly baffled.

How do "bipartisan" bills help us Democrats more than the rThugs?

If we only pass watered down bills that the Republicans are on board on, how does that help us in the midterms?

If we Democrats argue amongst ourselves that President Biden's 3.5T "Build Back Better" agenda is too expensive, as some Democrats are, isn't that writing the attack adds for the Republicans come the midterms?

Doesn't the danger really lie in doing too little to help people in the bottom half the American economy?