Pelosi vows to bring infrastructure to vote on Thursday
By Cristina Marcos,Scott Wong and Mike Lillis - 10/28/21 11:29 AM EDT
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Democrats she will bring a Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill to the floor later Thursday, rolling the dice with progressives who are vowing to vote down the roads-and-bridges package unless a bigger social spending package moves with it.
Pelosi “said she’s going to hold the vote open until we get a majority,” House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), a member of Pelosi’s leadership team, told The Hill after Democrats’ meeting with President Biden in the Capitol.
Addressing her rank-and-file members after Biden, Pelosi rallied Democrats to give the president a victory as he embarks on a European trip Thursday to address the G20 and a global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
“When the president gets off that plane we want him to have a vote of confidence from this Congress,” Pelosi said, according to a source in the room.
“In order for us to have success, we must succeed today.”
Pelosi is effectively daring progressives to directly undermine President Biden on the world stage.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/578909-pelosi-vows-to-bring-infrastructure-to-vote-on-thursday
