Democrats Still Don’t Have the Votes

“House Democratic leaders were struggling Friday morning to muster the final few votes needed to pass their sweeping $2 trillion budget reconciliation package over cost concerns from moderates,” Roll Call reports.

“Speaker Nancy Pelosi huddled in her Capitol Hill office early Friday with a group of centrists who’ve said they need to see a formal Congressional Budget Office estimate of the measure’s deficit impact and total price tag. Leadership can only afford to lose three votes among Democrats with all Republicans expected to vote ‘no’ on the huge bill, and early indications were that they hadn’t yet corralled enough support.”

Asked whether he believed there would be a vote tonight, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters: “I don’t know.”