Moderates Can’t Prevail in House Democratic Squabble
The complicated choreography of infrastructure and spending bills puts decision-making power in the hands of party leaders, not party factions.
Where the power is.
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The next step in the two-bill infrastructure plan making its way through Congress is for the House of Representatives to join the Senate next week in passing a budget resolution, a step in the process of moving forward with the partisan bill that will contain Democratic priorities outside of so-called traditional infrastructure. Nine Democrats on the moderate side of the House caucus are objecting; they want the House to act first on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that the Senate passed on Aug. 10.