New: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urges Dems not to abandon HR1 for narrower bill preferred by Manchin

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18. Nancy isn't about to "abandon" HR1. Therefore the caucus she leads won't.

Speaker Pelosi has always believed in achieving something, the value of always achieving toward the ultimate goal. But that doesn't mean folding when not necessary and more than has to be.

Back in 2010 the pressure was intense from senate Democrats, some house Democrats, and then President Obama, to dramatically slash provisions of the ACA to get "something" passed. In the Oval Office Pelosi informed President Obama that the house would pass its entire bill in its current form or nothing. Then she did. That's part of why many who were there think of it as Pelosicare.

A little different view on this "abandon" nonsense. Not in this ferociously determined progressive's vocabulary.