More than half of the 95-member House Progressive Caucus signaled they would vote against the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package that Speaker Nancy Pelosi intended to bring up for a vote this past Thursday. The group is contending that the House and Senate first enacted a $3.5 trillion social welfare spending bill that is not yet penned and lacks full support among Democrats.
The infrastructure bill will not have the votes to pass.
“It will fail,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat, said following a closed-door meeting with party lawmakers Tuesday. “We had an agreement that we were going to get these two pieces.”
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Despite the increasing objection, Democratic leaders have not dropped attempts to call up a vote on the infrastructure package.
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The bipartisan bill reached the Senate earlier this year, and Biden is keen to sign it into law, which would enable him to promote a major victory for his administration and the Democratic Party. It would pay for roads, bridges, water projects, expanded broadband, and new electric vehicle charging stations.
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Democrats are expecting to attain over enough unwilling liberals to transfer the infrastructure bill by showing by the end of the week that there is an understanding on top-line spending and a framework for the social welfare spending package.
“What we are hoping to get this week is a number and a framework,” Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, said Tuesday. “That will give confidence to some of our members,” to vote for the infrastructure bill, he added.
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Schakowsky and other liberals said they may take a framework and an understanding of how much the party will spend on the package. But as of Tuesday, Senate Democrats were still hashing out major differences.
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Two centrist Democrats met with President Joe Biden to beat out an agreement on what they would be prepared to take.
Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona say the proposed $3.5 trillion packages are too costly and they oppose other policy provisions in the package.
Manchin proposed waiting until next year to ponder the spending package.
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Democrats hope that Biden will persuade Sinema and Manchin to agree to support passing a spending package shortly, even if it means lowering the cost to win them over.
“I think there is a real effort to come up with a top-line number,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, told reporters.
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