Pelosi establishes a risky vote by the House to consider the $ 3.5 million budget approved

Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy Pelosi: Five lawmakers will have to monitor the House’s key budget vote. Pelosi says the House is working to approve infrastructure bills before Oct. 1. (D-California) and its leadership team continue to move forward with a risky strategy Monday to advance key parts of President BidenJoe BidenHenri went into tropical depression when it rains in northeastern Britain to urge G7 leaders to consider adopting sanctions against the Taliban – report five lawmakers who will have to monitor the House’s budget vote MOREthe domestic agenda while refusing to bend to the demands of a handful of centrists.

The plan would allow the House to vote Monday night on a rule it would consider a $ 3.5 trillion budget approved, while establishing a process for considering a bipartisan Senate-approved infrastructure bill at an unspecified time. .

The strategy is risky because ten centrist Democrats have said they will not support the $ 3.5 billion budget without first voting on the infrastructure bill. It is not clear that these Democrats will vote for the rule that considers the budget to be adopted.

Pelosi can only afford three defections if all Republicans, as expected, vote against the rule.

If the rule fails, it would be an embarrassing setback for Democrats that would highlight their divisions.

Pelosi has sided with the House Liberals, who make up a large majority of his caucus, by demanding that the House approve the budget before taking action on the infrastructure bill.

Pelosi rarely brings to the fore anything that doesn’t have enough votes to pass, and fellow Democrats on Monday wondered if he could somehow find the votes to advance the rule.

Members of Pelosi’s leadership team seemed uncertain if the plan would really work.

When asked if Democrats have enough votes to pass the rule, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (DS.C.) replied, “I have no idea.”

Shortly after the top Democrats announced their new plan, Rep. Josh GottheimerJoshua (Josh) Gottheimer Five lawmakers must be on the lookout for the key vote in the House budget. Pelosi says the House is working to approve infrastructure bills before Oct. 1. (DN.J.), the leader of the group of centrists calling for an immediate vote on the Senate-approved infrastructure law, began meeting with the leadership outside the House.

A moderate Democrat predicted the latest strategy would not fly: “The low rule,” the lawmaker told The Hill.

Meanwhile, progressives expressed frustration with the centrists who only began demanding a quick vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate earlier this month, although Pelosi has said for months that the Chamber would not vote on it until the $ 3.5 trillion spending plan to expand the social safety net is done.

“The idea of ​​dropping a bomb at 11 a.m. doesn’t seem to be responsible for the people of this country waiting for a legislature to work for them,” Rep said. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez “Cat Women Without Children” and the Long History of Regulating Who Compensates as U.S. Congress Staff Remuneration Is Still Too Low Life of BIPOC is Important in New Census Report MORE (DN.Y.).

Members of Pelosi’s leadership team framed the vote on the rule as a test of the party unity needed to meet Biden’s agenda.

“The rule is to be a majority. There is a long way to go in legislative issues that will be developed over the next month. But for now the discussion is over, the House will continue, “said the chairman of the House Roads and Media Committee. Richard NealRichard Edmund Neal: “Money: White House rules out pandemic unemployment benefit extension | Treasury: Few small business owners will see tax hikes Yellen and Walsh rule out unemployment aid extension without Trump pandemic faces legal hurdles to keep MORE private statements (Missa D).

The White House has also been working overtime to try to put Democrats on a path to victory.

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Naomi Jagoda and Brett Samuels contributed.

Updated at 8 p.m.