Pelosi Rebuffs McConnell on Infrastructure

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “amplified her plans to link a bipartisan infrastructure agreement to a second package of Democratic economic priorities, rebuffing an appeal from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to decouple the two bills,” The Hill reports.

“Pelosi said her initial strategy — to withhold a House infrastructure vote until the Senate passes a larger, partisan families plan — remains unchanged.”

Said House Budget Committee chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY): “What the Speaker has said, and I totally agree with her, is that we’re not going to vote on one until the Senate sends us both. That’s not changed.”