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1 Oct, 6 tweets, 1 min read
New — Bernie Sanders, standing outside Schumer’s office, tells us infrastructure deal should be “defeated” and rails on late-night dealmaking effort
Sanders: “It is an absurd way to do business, to be negotiating a multi trillion dollar bill a few minutes before a major vote with virtually nobody knowing what's going on. That's unacceptable.”
“And I think what has got to happen is that tonight, the bipartisan infrastructure bill must be defeated. And we can the. sit down and work out a way to pass both pieces of legislation.”
Sanders: “So I want to see the infrastructure bill passed, but it's absolutely imperative that we pass a strong, reconciliation bill that deals with the needs of working families, and it deals with the existential threat of climate change.
Sanders: “So whatever kind of discussions are taking place tonight, taking place tomorrow, taking place the day after, in a calmer setting where people will be involved in that discussion.”
I asked if he wouldn’t sign onto a deal tonight.

“What deal, what deal? We do not what the deal is? If it's a $10 trillion deal I will sign off on it”

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24 Sep
Moderate Democrats met with House Dem leaders in Pelosi's office for an hour and 15 minutes, and afterward they were was high expectation the vote on the Senate's infrastructure bill would still occur on Monday.

"I'm bringing the bill to the floor on Monday," Hoyer told us
Hoyer also told me Pelosi is "working towards" getting the party's reconciliation bill on the floor by next week, even as there are major differences within their party to resolve. "Both bills are going to pass," he said confidently.
"I'm expecting a vote on Monday, yeah," said Rep. Ed Case, a Blue Dog Democrat, said of the infrastructure bill. Asked about the reconciliation bill, Case said: "We're just trying to keep a lot of trains on the same track," Case said. "That's what's our commitment is to do.”
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24 Sep
Asked Bennie Thompson, chairman of Jan. 6 panel, how they'd handle the four Trump allies who have been subpoenaed -- if they don't comply
"Criminal contempt is on the table," Thompson said. "And if it comes to that, there will be no reluctance at all on the committee to do that"
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23 Sep
House Budget plans to meet Friday or Saturday to take up the party’s massive $3.5 trillion economic package. It is NOT the final deal bc there is no deal yet as negotiations within the party intensify.

“Effectively the markup is more procedural than substantive,” Yarmuth said.
The move is an attempt by House Dem leaders to show momentum on the larger bill in a bid to convince progressives to vote for the Senate’s infrastructure plan on Monday after they’ve threatened to sink it over their concerns that the larger plan will be killed by moderates
The panel’s vote will be on the legislation that has been approved by 13 House committees. The committee will bring those individual pieces together and approve it, readying it for eventual floor action.
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22 Sep
Bipartisan policing talks dead, per a source familiar with the matter. Booker and Scott talked today. Karen Bass told me “no” talks not in a good place. “I think it's because things have not moved forward. At a certain point, you have to say, are we going to move forward or not?”
Earlier today, Scott contended that talks were on the “finish line.” “We're not in disagreement on any of the issues, we're now working on the language within the agreement and if we walk away now, we walk away on that finish line,” he told me
Booker: “Unfortunately, even with this law enforcement support and further compromises we offered, there was still too wide a gulf with our negotiating partners and we faced significant obstacles to securing a bipartisan deal.” Image
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21 Sep
Jayapal told a group of us she told Pelosi that progressives haven’t changed their view: They are a NO on the infrastructure bill if it comes to a vote Monday — assuming that the larger Democratic reconciliation bill hasn’t passed the Senate by then (which it won’t)
Jayapal thinks that Pelosi will delay the Monday vote on the Senate infrastructure bill because Jayapal predicts it will fail then, though the speaker has not indicated she will do that.

Jayapal said they didn't talk a lower price tag because they don't know where the Senate is
Jayapal reiterates that her caucus has more than half of progressives on her side on this. More than 48 members, enough to sink the infrastructure bill on Monday
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20 Sep
Manchin says Dems will need a lot of "clarity" to get reconciliation bill together by next week --- and calls for a pause. "Let's wait and see whatever we need... The main thing is inflation."

But AOC says infra bill is going down on Sept. 27 if reconciliation hasn't passed
AOC: “So this is the thing you have a very small destructive group of members who want to hold the entire country's agenda hostage for an arbitrary date. And this is not it's not representative of the agenda of the caucus is not representative of the agenda of the President”
She added: “We need to stay focused on the original process that allowed us to move forward in the first place. … I'm more than happy to vote for the infrastructure bill, if we're able to figure out a way to bring it up in a concurrent fashion with reconciliation.”
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