House Adopts $3.5 Trillion Budget Blueprint Backed by Biden
- White House mounted pressure campaign to quell Democratic rift
- Action tees up final vote on infrastructure bill in September
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The U.S. House adopted a $3.5 trillion budget resolution Tuesday after a White House pressure campaign and assurances from Speaker Nancy Pelosi helped unite fractious Democrats to move ahead on the core of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda.
The 220-212 vote puts to rest, for now, an intra-party rift between progressives and moderates that threatened to derail Pelosi’s strategy for shepherding through the budget framework and the separate $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill the House plans to pass by the end of next month.