ANALYSIS: As ‘The Squad’ Threatens To Tank Infrastructure, Pelosi Is Trying To Hold Back A Full-Blown Civil War – By Michael Ginsberg (Daily Caller) / Aug 9 2021
Progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives, led by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are threatening to blow up a bipartisan infrastructure agreement if the Senate does not pass a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.
Ocasio-Cortez claimed on Sunday that she had “more than enough” votes to tank the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Ohio Sen. Rob Portman introduced last Monday. Sinema pledged on July 28 not to “support a bill that costs $3.5 trillion,” leading Ocasio-Cortez to imply that she deliberately created an all-white group of senators to negotiate the package.
Sinema is not the only Senate Democrat to express concerns about the size of the reconciliation package. Her fellow Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly told reporters that he wants to see it paid for before he offers final approval, and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin refused to “guarantee anybody on any … pieces of legislation.”
Ocasio-Cortez and her “Squad” allies, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman, have the support of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
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