Pelosi: 'No patience' for Democratic debt ceiling holdouts
By Sylvan Lane and Scott Wong - 09/29/21 12:48 PM EDT
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) is scrambling to keep House Democrats unified behind a bill to raise the federal debt ceiling as a small band of moderates threaten to tank the measure over concerns about political optics.
The House is expected to vote Wednesday on a bill to suspend the federal debt ceiling through December 2022. But Democratic Reps. Stephanie Murphy (Fla.), Kurt Schrader (Ore.), and Jared Golden (Maine) are among those threatening to vote against another attempt to keep the country solvent that will almost certainly die in the Senate, according to Democratic lawmakers.
“We cannot predicate our actions in the House on what could happen in the Senate,” Pelosi told reporters Wednesday morning.
“We can when we're coming to agreement on a bill,” she continued “But in terms of this, I have no patience for people not voting for this."
Inside a Democratic whip team meeting moments earlier, Pelosi also sounded off on those moderates threatening to tank the debt bill over concerns it would be nothing more than a show vote.
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