Pelosi Hails ‘Historic’ Bill as House Poised to Pass Biden Plan
- GOP leader McCarthy delayed passage with eight-hour speech
- CBO finds new tax increases don’t fully cover new spending
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House Speaker Nancy Pelsoi hailed President Joe Biden’s roughly $2 trillion economic agenda as “historic, transformative and larger than anything we have done before,” as the chamber was poised to pass the legislation Friday morning.
The House reconvened for the vote Friday after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy delayed action with a more than eight-hour floor speech that lasted into the early morning.