“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.”

David Wasserman: “When midterm elections turn into tsunamis, Virginia and New Jersey sound an alarm a year out. And last night’s results are broadly consistent with a political environment in which Republicans would take back control of the House and Senate in 2022…”

“The question in the months ahead is how many additional Democratic incumbents decide to retire from potentially vulnerable House districts, now that New Jersey and Virginia have made clear to the political world an anti-Biden freight train is approaching.”

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said that it’s worth Democrats passing the party’s sweeping social spending and climate change package even if they lose the House in next year’s midterm elections, The Hill reports.

Said Jayapal: “What’s the alternative? To do nothing. I mean, that’s not gonna that’s not gonna get us anywhere… part of what we have to do is really understand the economic frustration that people have right now. And I think that is really important for us.”