The vote was 359 to 57….
House Speaker Pelosi and Treasury Sec. Mnuchin did some horse trading, something Pelosi was not gonna do until some m moderate Democrats pushed her to get a deal and back off her hardline in negotiations …Progressives were left standing on the sidelines…AOC voted ‘present’…
Trump held out for money for farmers , which allowed Pelosi to put back money for schoolchildren and families…
Neither political party wants a Government shut down a month out from a general election….
Trump especially trailing Biden in the polls….
Having failed to strike an agreement on Friday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, revived negotiations and ultimately agreed to include the agricultural funding with a provision that it could not be used for payments to fossil fuel importers and refiners. They also agreed to include nearly $8 billion in nutrition assistance for schoolchildren and families demanded by Ms. Pelosi.
House Democratic leaders had initially sought to advance the bill without the Commodity Credit Corporation money. But lawmakers in both parties balked at the omission, arguing that it was a critical resource for farmers across the country and helped fund a series of bipartisan programs. Moderate Democrats who count farmers and agriculture businesses as significant constituencies within their districts lobbied Ms. Pelosi to reconsider….
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Democrats also agreed to exclude provisions that would have provided additional funds for election security and extended critical deadlines for the U.S. census to submit redistricting data….