Moderates Urge Pelosi to Stay the Course on Infrastructure Vote
- Speaker has promised to hold Sept. 27 vote on key Biden plan
- But progressives warn that larger package must be passed first
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Democratic moderates in the U.S. House are imploring Speaker Nancy Pelosi to move forward with a Sept. 27 vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill despite threats from progressives to block it if a much larger spending package has not also been approved.
“We cannot afford to delay a single day longer when our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling, climate change induced calamities have just devastated communities across our country, and two million jobs a year are on the line,” the nine lawmakers wrote in a letter to Pelosi on Friday.