House adopts budget resolution and advances infrastructure bill

House Democrats moved forward with President Joe Biden’s economic plans on Tuesday after breaking a deadlock that threatened to undo the party’s sprawling platform.

In a vote of 220-212, the chamber passed a $ 3.5 trillion budget resolution and brought forward a bipartisan $ 1,000 billion infrastructure bill. The vote allows Democrats to write and approve a massive spending program without Republicans and puts the infrastructure plan passed by the Senate on track for final passage in the House.

The measure includes a non-binding commitment to vote on the infrastructure bill by September 27, which aims to appease nine centrist Democrats who have pushed the House to consider the bipartisan plan before passing the Democratic budget resolution. The vote also pushes forward a sweeping voting rights bill, which Democrats aim to pass as early as Tuesday.

In a statement Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Said she “is committed to passing the bipartisan infrastructure bill by September 27″ and that she ” would gather “his caucus to adopt it. She also pointed out that she aimed to pass a budget reconciliation bill that could go through the Senate, meaning it could turn out to be smaller than what progressives in the House want.

The opposition of the recalcitrant Nine Democrats has threatened a program that its supporters say will stimulate the economy and provide a lifeline for working-class households. Democratic leaders have touted the budget plan as the biggest expansion of America’s social safety net in decades.

Pelosi pushed to adopt the bipartisan and Democratic plans at the same time to ensure that centrists and progressives support both measures. The Nine Democrats withheld their support, leaving Pelosi and his top MPs to scramble to find a way forward to save the party’s economic plans.

They all ended up voting with their party on Tuesday. In a statement after the vote, Democrats led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey said their deal with party leaders “does what we set out to do: get a stand-alone vote for the bipartisan bill on the ‘infrastructure, send it to the president’s office, and then look at the reconciliation package separately. ”

The vote to move the measures forward preserves the party’s hopes of pushing through massive economic proposals this year. Democrats still have to overcome several hurdles – and draft a budget bill that can win the support of centrists and cautious spending progressives – to get the proposals through a tightly divided Congress.

Democrats in the Senate and House hope to draft their bill to strengthen the social safety net and invest in climate policy in the coming weeks. The budget measure calls for expanding health insurance, childcare and paid holidays, expanding the strengthened household tax credits adopted last year, creating a universal pre-K and pushing for adoption of green energy.

As the resolution authorizes up to $ 3.5 trillion in spending, centrists will likely try to lower the price.

Many Republicans backed the bipartisan infrastructure bill, saying it would shake up the economy. But they opposed the trillions in additional spending proposed by Democrats – and the tax hikes on businesses and high net worth individuals they hope to use to pay them off.

The GOP also argued that the Democratic plan will increase inflation, which White House officials have contested.

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