11 senators urge House to pass $3.5T package before infrastructure bill
By Aris Folley - 09/22/21 04:05 PM EDT
A group of 11 Democratic senators are urging party leadership to stay on course with their original "dual track" plan to pass a $3.5 trillion social spending plan in both chambers before taking up a bipartisan infrastructure deal in the House.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and others in issuing the statement on Wednesday afternoon.
The senators said they voted to pass a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure bill in August with “the clear commitment” that the deal would move alongside the Democrats’ larger spending plan.
They said passing the smaller physical infrastructure bill in the House before the social spending plan, which will move through the budget reconciliation process to bypass a GOP filibuster, “would be in violation of that agreement.”
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