Democrats are ready to drag Biden’s social spending bill across the House finish line once the CBO releases its cost estimate later this week — and won’t break for Thanksgiving until they do, Pelosi said privately
House Democrats have returned to the Capitol with plans to vote as soon as Thursday on President Joe Biden’s roughly $1.75 trillion social spending bill, with the party's warring factions seemingly appeased.
“I think people want to get it done before the week’s over,” said Rep. Henry Cuellar , a moderate who has grumbled about certain policies but is expected to back the bill on the floor. “There’s still some things I don’t like, but we’re going to look at it and then take it from there.” Some of the House’s most fiscally conscious moderates are now predicting that the budgetary hurdle will be less thorny than anticipated. Several have privately noted that the findings from CBO would need to be "wildly" off base for them to vote against the bill.
That would put Democrats on track to pass the mammoth bill on the floor before leaving for the weeklong recess — a considerably faster turnaround than some in the caucus would have predicted a few weeks ago. Democrats returned to Washington widely upbeat about passing Biden’s broader spending plan, which will include child care subsidies, universal pre-kindergarten, housing aid, climate initiatives and some relief for rising drug costs.that capped the House’s marquee infrastructure vote two weeks ago, which many in the party saw as burying one of the president’s highest points in months.
“Although [the ceremony] was about the bipartisan infrastructure [bill], you heard Build Back Better and a clear message from leaders that we're going to vote on it,” said Rep. Joyce Beatty , the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, as she came back to the Capitol from the White House signing ceremony.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer followed the White House ceremony with a promise to “build on today’s success by passing the rest of your Build Back Better Agenda in the weeks ahead.
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