PELOSI: "I just told members of my leadership that the reconciliation bill was a culmination of my service in Congress... Remove all doubt in anyone's mind that we will not have reconciliation. We will have a reconciliation bill. That is for sure."
Pelosi on holding an infrastructure bill vote in the House: "So far so good for today."

Then she adds: "It's impossible to persuade people to vote for the BIF without reassurances that the reconciliation bill will occur. And it will."
Pelosi on House infrastructure vote: "I have to deal step by step on this... I'm only envisioning taking this up and winning."
Pelosi: "You think I'm going to talk to you about my conversations with Joe Manchin in here? If you promise not to tell anyone?"

He calls him a "great member of the Senate. We're friends; we're fellow Americans, Catholics."
.@GarrettHaake asks if Manchin still sounds like someone who's on board with reconciliation.

Pelosi answers immediately: Yes

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28 Sep
NEW: House liberals dig in on halting the infrastructure bill until the social safety net bill has passed.

Frustration grows with Sinema and Manchin — especially Sinema.

Some Democrats fear "mutually assured destruction."

w/ @LACaldwellDC @GarrettHaake: nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
At a Democratic caucus meeting, Rep. Ro Khanna had some sharp words that were unmistakably directed at Kyrsten Sinema and her reconciliation tactics — and he received applause.

We caught up with @RoKhanna and he had more to say.

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One dynamic @LACaldwellDC picked up on today: House liberals have more patience for Manchin as he’s from a ruby red state Trump carried by ~40 pts, less patience for Sinema who’s from a blue-trending state that voted for a D president + 2 Dem senators.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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21 Sep
.@RepJayapal, after meeting privately with Pelosi for ~90 minutes, says she made clear to the Speaker: “At this point, if we don't have the reconciliation bill done, the infrastructure bill will not pass.”
Jayapal says “half” the 95-member progressive caucus is prepared to vote down the infrastructure bill unless the larger budget bill passes the Senate.

“We can’t move the other bill forward until we pass reconciliation,” she says.
.@RepJayapal doesn’t get into what she and Pelosi discussed in terms of timelines, but said: “We have to deliver the entirety of the president's agenda to his desk.”
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20 Sep
Why is this important? The Senate presiding offer—which VP Harris can become whenever she wants to—has the power to rule in opposition to the parliamentarian and it’d take 60 votes to block the VP. In this case that’s 10 Democrats saying no, immigration should not be included.
Now, to do that would be to effectively go nuclear. If there’s no nonpartisan referee on Byrd rule limits it needn’t exist—the party in power can do whatever it wants by simple majority vote in reconciliation.

Biden-Harris could force that issue but there’s no sign they want to.
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15 Sep
New —> Debt limit standoff intensifies as McConnell says Republicans oppose raising it

"Mitch McConnell is as serious as four heart attacks and a stroke," says one Republican senator. "And I don't think he's going to budge." nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
It's time to take the debt ceiling fight seriously.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
The White House expects Republicans to blink on the debt limit. A WH official says @POTUS doesn't believe it should be subject to negotiation, period. He's taking the same position as second-term Obama—no discussion, just raise it—when the GOP did cave. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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9 Sep
Biden on Covid vaccine resisters: “A distinct minority of Americans, supported by a distinct minority of elected officials, are keeping us from turning the corner. These pandemic politics, as I refer to it, are making people sick, causing unvaccinated people to die.” Image
President Biden previewing his vaccine mandates: "This is not about freedom or personal choice. It's about protecting yourself and those around you. People you work with. People you care about. People you love. My job as president is to protect all Americans."
Biden on vaccine mandates: "Some of the biggest companies are already requiring this ... even Fox News."
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8 Sep
NEW: Treasury says the U.S. debt limit fully expires in October and needs action to be lifted.

For weeks @LeaderMcConnell has insisted Democrats raise it on their own in the multi-trillion-dollar bill.

Today @SpeakerPelosi said that's not gonna happen.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Debt limit standoffs have become a Capitol Hill tradition under Democratic presidencies. The issue tends to get resolved with little drama when Republicans hold the White House. Partisan asymmetry. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Democrats are considering attaching a debt limit extension to the government funding bill ahead of a 9/30 deadline. @SpeakerPelosi tells me they're weighing "several options." Either way, this will require at least 10 GOP senators to break a filibuster.

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