Completing the reconciliation package this month was always ambitious, but it’s been made more complicated by another commitment that Pelosi made to the moderates — that the House wouldn’t take up a reconciliation package that can’t pass the Senate. Pelosi reiterated those commitments in a “Dear Colleague” letter Monday night.
“I have promised Members that we would not have House Members vote for a bill with a higher topline than would be passed by the Senate. Hopefully, that will be at the $3.5 trillion number,” she said. “We must be prepared for adjustments according to the Byrd rule and an agreed to number.”
Democrats have not yet resolved the disagreement over the $3.5 trillion topline that Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., oppose, let alone disputes over specific policy provisions. And senators are in the early stages of vetting the package with the Senate parliamentarian to ensure it complies with the Byrd rule.
There’s virtually no scenario under which Democrats will have a reconciliation package ready to send to the House floor next week that has gone through the Byrd review and has the blessing of all 50 Democrats. The moderate House Democrats who negotiated the deal with Pelosi have their own demands for reconciliation, but their primary focus has been the infrastructure bill.
Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, one of those moderates, said he expects the House will pass the infrastructure bill despite progressives’ threat because the Sept. 27 vote will “strip things away to their essence.”
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