Progressives Resist Nancy Pelosi's Plan For 'Fewer Things' In Budget Bill [View all]

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Progressive Democrats aren’t on board with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) directive that Democrats will likely have to cut major agenda items from their upcoming Build Back Better social policy bill.

As a few conservative Democrats remain at odds with the party over how much to spend on President Joe Biden’s agenda, Pelosi said this week that Democrats will likely need to slim down their ambitions for the reconciliation bill. But progressives prefer a different approach: If the bill is going to be smaller, then they prefer to pass shorter-term safety net expansions, instead of jettisoning of entire sections of the legislation.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) reiterated that message. “If we need to cut some of them back to fewer number of years, we’d be willing to do that,” she told reporters. “Why is that? Because we are not going to pit child care against climate change. We’re not going to pit housing against paid leave. We’re not going to pit seniors against young people.”

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a deputy whip in the Congressional Progressive Caucus, had a similar message. “What I’ve heard overwhelmingly from the Progressive Caucus is that they want to make sure that we aren’t cutting programs,” he told HuffPost.

https://news.yahoo.com/progressives-resist-nancy-pelosi-plan-201445884.html

I'm beginning to think that we may get nothing at all. Unthinkable just a few weeks ago.