President Joe Biden is siding with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the path forward for his two infrastructure proposals, even as nine centrist House Democrats clash with party leadership on the voting schedule for the packages.
Pelosi is proposing that both the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package and the bipartisan $1.2 trillion proposal proceed in tandem, yet Democratic Reps. Carolyn Bourdeaux of Georgia, Ed Case of Hawaii, Jim Costa of California, Jared Golden of Maine, Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, Kurt Schrader of Oregon, and Henry Cuellar, Vicente Gonzalez, and Filemon Vela of Texas have called for an immediate vote on the bipartisan plan over fiscal concerns regarding the larger bill. Two Democratic senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, have both voiced similar concerns.
