House Speaker Nancy Pelosi committed to rallying support for the bipartisan infrastructure bill in a statement released just before the House voted to approve a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint. According to The Hill, the budget vote had been held up by the demands of 10 centrist Democrats who wanted the House to first vote on a bipartisan infrastructure measure already approved by the Senate.
House progressives want the infrastructure put on hold until after the House and Senate approve a budget reconciliation package on Democratic votes that would be set up by the blueprint, The Hill reports.
According to the report, Pelosi committed to a September 27 deadline to pass the infrastructure bill to secure the support of the centrists for the budget vote. The budget was then approved in a party-line vote, with all House Democrats backing it.
