The Stimulus Bill just got passed in the US Senate…
The House has to vote on the Senate version….
With the 10 member majority in the House?
The Bill WILL PASS….
But some House Democrats are grumbling …..
Would they dare try to defeat the bill?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing dissent in her caucus ahead of Tuesday’s vote to confirm the passage of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill.
With the Democrats’ slim 221-211 House advantage, Pelosi can afford no more than four defections in the vote scheduled for Tuesday.
But two members of her caucus, Reps. Marcia Fudge of Ohio and Deb Haaland of New Mexico, could be confirmed to Biden administration posts as soon as Wednesday.
That gives extra weight to the whines coming from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other left-leaning House comrades after some of their major initiatives were stripped out of the American Rescue Plan Act — and could test Pelosi’s ability to keep her troops in line.
AOC retweeted a message from her fellow Democrat, New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Friday night.
“What are we doing here?” Watson Coleman griped in a tweet that bemoaned the elimination of a federal minimum-wage increase and a cut to unemployment benefits. “I’m frankly disgusted with some of my colleagues and question whether I can support this bill,” she added…..
The progressives have no choice; opposing (or not voting for) the American Rescue Plan will be wildly unpopular in their districts. Should they sink the bill — with millions facing unemployment, eviction, foreclosure and sheer hunger — they will doom their own future hopes and any other policies they might advocate. Given the balance in the Senate, the progressives in the House have no leverage on this issue, even though it might seem that they hold the balance of power.
Agreed DSD…..