Democrat Senator: "Everyone needs to get comfortable" that BBB will not pass in Senate
Karen Townsend Nov 06, 2021 11:31 AM ET
The House passed the smaller infrastructure bill that garnered bipartisan support late Friday night. The bill addresses real spending for infrastructure, not the liberal wish list of cradle to grave social program spending in the second infrastructure bill. Together, the two bills comprise Biden’s domestic agenda. With the passage of the smaller bill – $1.2T – it’s full speed ahead to now move to the second bill.
The social spending bill isn’t written yet, but House Democrats promised to agree on the framework of it and pass it in the House when it comes up. We’ll see if that holds true when the time comes. House progressives have tried to exert their demands to jam up Speaker Pelosi’s work to save Joe Biden from complete embarrassment with her inability to get his agenda through. It turns out that moderate Democrats had more sway in the end. If nothing else, the long and chaotic process that led to the vote late Friday night showed that Pelosi’s long-heralded skill in bill management has slipped.
The second bill is nowhere near ready for a vote in the Senate. The Build Back Better Act is supposed to be taken up in the House on November 15 but that assumes that moderate Democrats see the numbers from CBO that they want to see to show the bill will do what is promised, that the numbers line up. The only reason the first bill passed was because of some Republican support. There won’t be Republican support for BBB.
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