House Leaders Press Ahead with $3.5 Trillion Budget

“House Democratic leaders told members of their caucus on Tuesday that they plan to press ahead with a vote advancing a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint next week, disregarding warnings from moderate Democrats who said they will oppose that legislation without first voting on a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill,” the New York Times reports.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her deputies “this is no time for amateur hour.”

She added: “For the first time America’s children have leverage — I will not surrender that leverage. There is no way we can pass those bills unless we do so in the order that we originally planned.”

For members: Pelosi Squeezed