President Joe Biden suffered an embarrassing setback for his multitrillion dollar spending plans on Thursday night as Democrats abandoned a vote in Congress on his infrastructure bill and the party's civil war escalated.
A day of private negotiations and public mudslinging ended shortly before 11pm as Biden's congressional lieutenants called off the House vote amid a heated verbal war between moderates and progressives.
It leaves Biden's domestic agenda hanging in the balance. Progressives are threatening to tank his $1 trillion infrastructure plan, which centrists support, if the moderate faction does not also back his broader $3.5 trillion social spending bill.
After meeting with White House officials, centrist Democrat Senator Joe Manchin sounded the death knell.
'I don't see a deal tonight,' he said. 'I really don't.'
It meant House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced to delay Thursday's planned vote on the bipartisan bill to rebuild roads and bridges, but she vowed to bring the measure to the floor on Friday.
'There'll be a vote today,' a weary-looking Pelosi told reporters as she left the Capitol at 12.01am on Friday. 'We're not trillions apart.'
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The facility of pardon is an incentive to crime.
Lynn Bryant DeSpain
Term Limits - -great idea, they don't even read 2,000 page bills, hence the fraudbama health insurance scam.
Their are very few democrats any more - they are mostly Communists. They are most certainly not Progressive as every thing they propose is regressive and has been proven time and time again not to be beneficials. Does anyone in the democrat party have a brain? Does anyone know history? Does anyone know economics? Cn anyone read the Constitution? I think we all know the answers - No decidedly not!
“Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.”
Our Republic is under attack!! We cannot sustain this kind of deficit spending!! Think about it, How many Trillions of dollars are we in debt???
If the Fed raises interest rates 1-2% it will start hyperinflation, then if there is a run on the Banks for cash What happens??? It all comes down!!!
The only roadblock is not created by any democommie with a "conscience" - - it is created by those democommies who "fear" for their own re-election prospects, in the upcoming primaries.
It is not a display of conscious, but rather a notice of Spring's Arrival of Primaries.
Lynn Bryant DeSpain
Infrastructure bill? Where? Trillions on socialist programs ... free services, education, medical, food stamps, housing, etc. is not infrastructure. Unless Pelosi plans on housing the indigent under new bridges and overpasses...