Nov 6, 2021 – Politics & Policy
\nBuild Back Biden
\nAxios
\nMike Allen, Hans Nichols
\nPresident Biden smiling.
\nPhoto: Roberto Schmidt<\/p>\n
When it looked like she might be some 20 votes shy Friday afternoon, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters she had a “Speaker’s secret whip count.”<\/p>\n
The big picture: “I don’t tell anything that people tell me \u2014 not even you, my dear, good friends,” she said. “But I have a pretty good feeling.” Bluffing or not, seven suspenseful hours later \u2014 at 11:26 p.m. \u2014 Pelosi delivered a historic victory for President Biden, just as his agenda looked like it might vaporize.<\/p>\n
The House passed, 228-206, a $1.2 trillion “hard infrastructure” bill, with massive investments in roads, bridges, broadband and more.
\n“Finally: Infrastructure Week!” Biden said at the White House on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
House leaders didn’t have the votes on the bigger half of Biden’s agenda \u2014 $1.85 trillion to expand the social safety net \u2014 and punted to later this month. (The House is out for a week.)
\nThe infrastructure bill, passed by the Senate in August, now goes to Biden for signing.
\nZoom out: Infrastructure was the easier half. But congressional leaders and the White House were dying to lock in a win after Tuesday’s results gave Democrats a grim prelude to next year’s midterms.<\/p>\n
Terry McAuliffe, who had been pushing fellow Democrats to pass the infrastructure bill ahead of his disastrous Election Day in Virginia, last night “liked” a 10:53 p.m. tweet from Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman proclaiming: “INFRASTRUCTURE VOTE!”
\n“For the Smithsonian,” Sherman responded.
\nHere’s the deal: Progressives wanted the packages voted on together, fearing moderates would pocket the win on infrastructure \u2014 then let the social spending die. But House Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) says she got a guarantee: “Every single one of those individuals looked us in the eyes and said they were voting for it.”<\/p>\n
Moderate holdouts, who were demanding a Congressional Budget Office price tag for the social-spending bill, agreed to sign a statement they’d vote “aye” once the analysis is released.
\nGo deeper: The infrastructure Republicans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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