Headline Roundup • August 25th, 2021
House Passes $3.5T Budget Blueprint
Federal Budget,US House,Moderate Democrats,Budget Reconciliation,Infrastructure Bill,Economy And Jobs
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On Tuesday night, the House of Representatives passed the blueprint for a $3.5 trillion budget plan. The rule proposed to proceed with the plan passed with a 220 to 212 vote; all Democrats voted in favor, and all Republicans opposed it. House leadership also struck a deal with moderate Democrats on a path towards voting on the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill in late September.
If the budget resolution is adopted by the House, the Democrats could use a process called budget reconciliation to employ a simple majority to pass the legislation without any Republican support.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and moderate Democrats struck a compromise Tuesday on the path forward to voting on the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill and adopting the $3.5 trillion budget resolution.
The House passed on H. Res. 601, the resolution that contains the rule for the House to consider the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, otherwise known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, S. Con. Res. 14, the budget resolution, and H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021.
The measure passed 220-212, after House moderate Democrats led a...
Jonathan Ernst | Reuters
House Democrats forged ahead with President Joe Biden’s economic plans Tuesday after they broke a stalemate that threatened to unravel the party’s sprawling agenda.
In a 220-212 party-line vote, the chamber passed a $3.5 trillion budget resolution and advanced a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. The vote allows Democrats to write and approve a massive spending package without Republicans and puts the Senate-passed infrastructure plan on a path to final passage in the House.
The measure includes a nonbinding commitment to vote on the infrastructure bill by Sept. 27, which aims...
House Democrats on Tuesday approved a roughly $3.5 trillion budget that could enable sweeping changes to the nation’s health-care, education and tax laws, overcoming their own internal divisions to take the next step toward enacting President Biden’s broader economic agenda.
The 220-to-212 party-line vote came after days of delays as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) scrambled to stave off a revolt from her party’s moderate-leaning lawmakers. With the frenzy resolved, the chamber averted what would have been a political embarrassment for the White House and its allies — even as...
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