Pelosi signals she won't move $3.5T bill without Senate-House deal
Posted on AllSides September 23rd, 2021
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has signaled to colleagues in both chambers that she will not put the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package on the House floor for a vote until it’s clear that it can also pass the 50-50 Senate.
Some Democrats are calling for the House to move as soon as possible on the package, even if two key centrist votes in the Senate, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), haven’t yet signed off on it.
Both Manchin and Sinema say they won’t support a $3.5 trillion package but haven’t publicly said how...