The comments give the nine moderate House Democrats demanding that Pelosi hold a vote on the infrastructure bill even more leverage as they try to get the $1 trillion legislation through the House. Gottheimer's group said in a statement Sunday that it still wants an infrastructure vote first, though not in such strong terms as their initial letter. House progressives, meanwhile, are threatening to block the infrastructure bill until the Senate produces the reconciliation bill, likely later this fall. And it's unclear how many GOP votes Fitzpatrick believes he has for the infrastructure bill. But one of Biden's chief deputies, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, seemed to say recently that the infrastructure bill deserves independent consideration.

Source: Fox News August 17, 2021 12:45 UTC