But for a band of recalcitrant House progressives, the acceleration amounted to a false urgency of now — an artificial deadline that prioritized political optics over substance.They vowed to vote down the infrastructure bill to ensure they could continue to negotiate on the Build Back Better framework that Biden struck with Senate moderates Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. That threat forced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to cancel a planned vote Thursday evening.Sen.
For months, Democratic lawmakers pleaded with Biden and White House officials to get more engaged in negotiations on Capitol Hill and to begin the politically bloody work of triage on the"Build Back Better" plan. Manchin had laid down a marker of $1.5 trillion over the summer in a long-secret memo signed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Nearly a month before his Thursday visit to the Capitol, Biden was faced with a similar standoff between moderates and progressives. At the time, Pelosi had promised to put the infrastructure bill on the floor, and progressives had balked at voting for it. Short of the votes for infrastructure, Biden urged lawmakers to continue working toward a deal on the"Build Back Better" plan.
The House voted Thursday night to temporarily extend authorization for the nation's highway projects, but it now seems unlikely that the broader infrastructure bill will pass before Virginia polls close Tuesday.
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