Why Not A Different 50th Senate Vote?

[George II]

27. He won't blow it up, but he's advised his colleagues in the House to do so.

https://vtdigger.org/2021/09/29/sanders-calls-on-house-progressives-to-vote-no-on-infrastructure-but-welch-plans-to-vote-yes/

Sanders calls on House progressives to vote ‘no’ on infrastructure, but Welch plans to vote ‘yes’

As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to vote on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has become one of the most forceful advocates of its defeat.

Passing the more limited measure now, he has argued, would “end all leverage” that progressives have to convince moderates in the U.S. Senate to support a far more ambitious, $3.5 trillion package that has become the centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda.

But so far, at least, Sanders has failed to convince the sole member of the House hailing from own state: U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. In an interview with VTDigger on Wednesday, Welch said he planned to back the infrastructure bill if it came to a vote on Thursday.

“Our democracy is at stake,” said Welch, a member of the House Progressive Caucus. “My Republican colleagues are making an argument that government doesn’t work. I’m doing everything I can to build trust in government … by passing legislation that will help people back home, like with an infrastructure bill.”