Democratic leaders' ambitious domestic agenda is trapped in a political tug of war: The more they yank toward progressives, the more they pull away from centrist GOP forces that rallied behind their infrastructure bill
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise is urging his members to vote against a Senate-passed infrastructure bill. | Democratic leaders' ambitious domestic agenda is trapped in a political tug of war: The more they yank toward progressives, the more they pull away from centrist GOP forces that rallied behind their infrastructure bill.
And the party’s biggest winner in the entire affair is House GOP leaders, who say Democrats are only helping their efforts to unite their conference against the infrastructure measure by repeatedly linking the two together. Republicans are using the connection as a messaging cudgel to beat down backing for the infrastructure bill.
“You probably would have gotten a bunch before the leadership started to whip against it, and now you're probably going to lose more because Biden has so actively linked them,” said one centrist House Republican. “I think it really depends. If they have the [infrastructure and social spending] votes held at the same time, I'd be surprised if we got one Republican to support it.”
Freshman Rep. Nicole Malliotakis crystallized the case against House GOP infrastructure support last week by contending that any further vote delays would prove Democrats were permanently yoking one bipartisan bill to a party-line social spending plan, thereby uniting her party in opposition. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Scalise have individually called certain members to try to influence their vote, arguing that the two pieces of legislation are inextricably tied.
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