More: Biden's electric vehicle plan includes expanding charging stations. Is it enough? The infrastructure bill was the result of weeks of negotiations over the spring and summer between Republicans, Democrats and Biden. In August, the bill was approved in the Senate on a bipartisan vote. The infrastructure bill would provide the largest investment in transit and water projects in history, the biggest investment in passenger railways since the creation of Amtrak and the most bridge investment since the creation of the interstate highway system, according to the White House.
Moderates on Friday postponed the vote on the Build Back Better Act after they said they wanted to wait until the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office "scored" the bill's true fiscal effect on spending and the debt.
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As of now, it is looking less and less likely that House Democrats will be able to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill or the reconciliation package today. A handful of Democratic centrists are insisting they must see the analysis from the Congressional Budget Office before passing the reconciliation package, and that report is not expected for another couple of weeks. So House speaker Nancy Pelosi called for a vote today on the final passage of the infrastructure bill, even though progressives have said for months that they will not support the proposal until the reconciliation package is approved as well.
Progressive congresswoman Cori Bush has also made clear that she will not support the bipartisan infrastructure bill until the reconciliation package advances as well. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar retweeted a message from congressman Jared Huffman saying the infrastructure bill would not pass without the reconciliation package being approved as well. House progressives are making it clear once again that they will not support the bipartisan infrastructure bill until the reconciliation package advances as well.
House speaker Nancy Pelosi has told members that they will vote today on the rule for the reconciliation package and the final passage of the infrastructure bill. But in a new statement, Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, made clear that her members would not go forward with such a plan.
Updated at 8. House majority leader Steny Hoyer confirmed that the chamber will now begin one hour of debate on the rule for the reconciliation package. After that debate has concluded, the House plans to vote on both the rule and the final passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Meanwhile, the vote has finally closed on the Republican motion to adjourn the chamber. House speaker Nancy Pelosi kept the vote open for more than seven hours as she tried to convince members of her caucus to advance the reconciliation package.
By a vote of to , the motion to adjourn was rejected, as expected. The delay made this the longest vote in House history. The House rejected the motion to adjourn by a vote of But it remains unclear whether House progressives will go along with this plan.
They have repeatedly made clear that they will not support the infrastructure bill until the reconciliation package advances as well. And as of now, it is unclear when the House may give final approval to the reconciliation package, as some centrists are insisting they must see the analysis from the Congressional Budget Office before supporting the bill. That report may not be available for weeks.
Key events Show Live feed Show. The standoff over the House vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill continues. So instead, Pelosi is trying to pass the infrastructure bill and the rule to begin debate on the reconciliation package. Joe Biden has cancelled plans to travel to Delaware, and reportedly called into the ongoing hours-long meeting of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in an effort to push the infrastructure bill forward. It remains unclear whether Pelosi has the votes to pass the infrastructure bill, as progressives are insisting the reconciliation package must be approved at the same time.
Biden celebrated the strong jobs report, which showed the US economy added , jobs last month. Pelosi said with a smile at one point, "I have the speaker's secret whip count. Biden calls progressives. Biden called Jayapal, a Washington state Democrat, this afternoon amid the standoff, according to three sources familiar with the matter. She left a meeting of the Congressional Progressive Caucus early to take the call. After the call, Jayapal asked for a show of hands of those who would not back the infrastructure bill, roughly 20 progressives raised their hands, according to a source in the room.
The President separately called into a meeting of the Progressive Caucus itself and spoke on speakerphone to the members, according to two sources familiar with the call, pushing a vote on the infrastructure bill.
Biden also scrapped his travel to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Friday night as initially planned, according to a White House official, as he continues to push for a path forward on advancing his agenda. Part of Biden's message to progressives Friday is that he was willing to work with them to find some kind of solution, so long as they agreed to vote for the infrastructure bill in the coming hours, according to a source familiar with the call.
Things moved toward the process of crafting a statement, backed by the moderates and Biden, that would provide explicit and concrete assurances related to the future vote on Biden's economic and climate agenda bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, the source said. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey were in direct talks as they tried to finalize a deal that could get the infrastructure bill to the President's desk Friday with concrete assurances the moderates would back the Build Back Better Act.
The memo issued by five moderate members of the Democratic caucus was aimed at giving those assurances. Gottheimer and fellow moderate Democratic Reps. Ed Case of Hawaii, Stephanie Murphy of Florida, Kathleen Rice of New York and Kurt Schrader of Oregon vowed to vote for the social spending package "in its current form other than technical changes, as expeditiously as we receive fiscal information from the Congressional Budget Office -- but in no event later than the week of November Frustration throughout the day.
Every time we get close, they come up with a new demand. Progressive members were also not happy with the new plan being pushed by leadership of letting infrastructure pass without the social spending bill, multiple sources told CNN. It won't pass," one progressive told CNN, referring to Jayapal, the Congressional Progressive chairwoman, and other members of the caucus and the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which is frequently referred to as BIF. Moderate demands stall push for votes. CBO scores of legislation provide an estimate of the effects the policies could have on revenue and spending.
Moderates, many of whom have expressed concerns over the overall cost of the bill, argue it is important to have that information and a full picture of the potential impact of the sweeping social safety net plan before holding a vote.
But it could take some time to prepare such a cost estimate. In the meantime, Democratic leadership is relying on a White House analysis saying the bill is fully paid for, based in part on the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation.
Biden turns the screws on Democrats with a call for the House to pass his economic agenda 'right now'.
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