"This week, we must pass a Continuing Resolution, Build Back Better Act and the BIF," Pelosi announced in a "Dear Colleague" letter Saturday.
The speaker wrote on Saturday afternoon that Sept. 30 “is a date fraught with meaning.” The day marks the end of the fiscal year, after which the federal government is supposed to run out of money if lawmakers fail to pass a continuing resolution to avert a shutdown.
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The same date further marks when surface transportation programs are supposed to expire.
At the same time, Pelosi announced that the lower chamber must likewise move quickly to pass a Senate-approved $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package and a $3.5 trillion social spending package essential to President Biden’s economic agenda.
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“The next few days will be a time of intensity,” Pelosi wrote to her Democratic colleagues. “We must pass the BIF to avoid the expiration of the surface transportation funding on September 30. And we must stay on schedule to pass the reconciliation bill so that we can Build Back Better.”
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The letter was sent while the House Budget Committee carried out its markup of the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion social spending package.
Democrats hope to pass the plan — which is expected to unlock funding for Medicare expansions, spending boosts for education, public housing and other party-backed priorities — using a process called reconciliation that will allow them to bypass the Senate legislative filibuster.
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Though Democrats have struggled to stay united amid spending negotiations over the partisan package before a planned vote on the smaller, physical infrastructure plan set for Monday.
House progressives have threatened to vote against the bipartisan deal unless the larger package gets a vote first, concerned about how many of the popular social spending items in the reconciliation would fare with their conservative colleagues if the more modest plan has already passed.
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It’s unclear whether the bipartisan infrastructure deal will have the needed votes to pass the lower chamber on Monday, as House GOP leaders have called on their party members to vote against the plan in opposition to the larger package that has been promoted by Democrats.
A failed vote on the bipartisan deal would just escalate already simmering stresses within the Democratic party, as moderates have pledged to vote against the reconciliation plan in the House if progressives tank the physical infrastructure plan.
And Democrats can afford just three defections for the reconciliation plan in the House, which is expected to get no votes from Republicans.
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