Nine House Democrats are standing firm in their commitment to not consider Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) budget proposal before the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has long planned to pass the infrastructure bill and Sanders’ budget at the same time as part of what Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) calls President Joe Biden’s “two-track strategy.” In an Aug. 12 letter to Pelosi, nine moderate Democrats called the bill “a bipartisan victory for our nation” and rejected this “two-track” approach. The letter concluded, “We will not consider voting for a budget resolution until the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passes the House and is signed into law.”
