After negotiations fail, Democrats will try to pass Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill at the end of the month

Democrats will try to pass US President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law on October 31. announced this Saturday the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, who had promised a vote this week.

It’s a statement, Pelosi explained that the vote will take place on October 31 because on that day funds for highways and other transit routes will expire. If these funds expire, 3,700 federal employees could lose their jobs and wages.

This funding has already expired on October 1, at the start of the new fiscal year, but Congress approved in the last few hours a 30-day fund increase, through October 31.

Pelosi’s announcement comes after This week, tensions between the centrist and left-wing sectors of the Democratic Party prevented the approval of the $ 1.2 trillion infrastructure law.

“I tell you: we will get there”Biden told reporters on Friday after meeting behind closed doors with his party lawmakers. “It doesn’t matter when, it doesn’t matter if it’s six minutes, six days or six months away.”he added, before the failure of negotiations.

This plan, what was approved in the Senate a few weeks ago with the support of both parties, it is one of two strands of Biden’s economic program and involves rebuilding roads and bridges.

The other leg, which is supported by the Most Democrats are looking to expand social programs, tackle the climate crisis, and raise taxes for big and wealthy corporations.

The centrist sector had pressured Pelosi to get the House of Representatives to approve the infrastructure plan on Thursday; but the Progressives rebelled and threatened to overthrow him if concrete social commitments were not met.

This package, which contains the major social policies of Biden, has not yet been approved by any of the chambers, and its content is what is currently causing tensions within the party.

One of the big questions is amount of funds that will go to this social plan, in which the progressives wanted to invest between 6 and 10 trillion dollars, But it is currently estimated at 3.5 trillion, a figure still high for some centrists.

In short, for the democrats of the center, and for the whole republican field, the state should not interfere too much, even with the best of intentions, in the privacy of Americans. Thus, Senator Manchin has publicly stated that opposes the development of a “well-being mentality” In a society where dealing with education, health or loss of income historically comes from individual resilience and even from charity.

For legislators more to the left, led by the senator Bernie Sanders, on the contrary, there is an urgent need to correct the huge inequalities.

Biden admitted on Saturday that there is “frustration” due to the tensions within his party, but he considers it part of governance.

On Friday, the president met Democrats in Congress behind closed doors and, although no deal was reached, the nomination served to give the party more time to continue debating.

The internal war within the Democratic Party comes at a time when the Biden’s approval rating has plummeted in the polls and with just over a year to go for the November 2022 legislative election, in which the Democrats could lose the slim majority they have in the Senate and the Lower House.

With information from EFE

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