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Pelosi: Social spending and climate package is 'alive'

  
Via:  Nerm_L  •  2 years ago  •  9 comments

By:   Mike Lillis (The Hill)

Pelosi: Social spending and climate package is 'alive'
Under the reconciliation rules, Republicans do not have the power to filibuster the legislation

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that negotiations on a massive social spending and climate package remain active despite the opposition from Senate centrists that stopped the legislation in its tracks last year.

The Speaker emphasized that House Democrats, who passed a roughly $2 trillion reconciliation package in November, are essentially sidelined as Senate leaders seek to continue the delicate talks with the centrist holdouts.

But a day after meeting with President Biden and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) at the White House to discuss the economy, Pelosi said there's still a chance of enacting some slimmed-down version of the House legislation this year.

"Reconciliation is a Senate matter. We passed our bill, we made our views known. And that is a closely held negotiation on the Senate side," Pelosi said during a press briefing in the Capitol.

"Suffice to say that we expressed our interest in the timing, when it would happen. But we did not get into the details."

"It's alive," she added. "I would say that."

Pelosi declined to reveal any details about the White House talks, but expressed some hope that whatever proposal might emerge will extend enhanced premium subsidies for millions of patients under ObamaCare. Those subsidies, adopted last year under Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, are scheduled to expire at the end of 2022 — an occurrence that vulnerable House Democrats are scrambling to prevent.

"There are certain concerns that we have about subsidies in the health care bill and the rest, which may or may not be in the negotiation," Pelosi said. "But we shall see."

Pelosi and House Democrats had passed their version of the enormous reconciliation package late last year after months of tense talks between liberals and moderates over the particulars of the legislation.

The social spending bill includes a host of policies designed to help working families that Democrats have sought, in some cases, for decades. The list includes child care subsidies, universal preschool, paid family leave, renewable energy tax incentives and extensions of both the expanded child tax credit and enhanced ObamaCare subsidies.

The bill represented the core of Biden's successful campaign message in 2020, but it hit a brick wall in the Senate, where centrist Democrats — most notably Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) — balked at the size and scope of the benefits. Manchin said the new spending was particularly concerning amid the national spike in inflation, which he fears will be exacerbated by another round of federal stimulus.

Under the reconciliation rules, Republicans do not have the power to filibuster the legislation, meaning the bill would require only a simple majority to pass through the Senate. But in the 50-50 upper chamber, Democrats would need all their members — and the two Independents who caucus with them — to move it to Biden's desk. Manchin, alone, can block it.

Pelosi and House Democrats have long been resigned to the reality that their version of the reconciliation package is dead in the Senate. Still, the Speaker is holding out hope that some smaller version will move while Democrats control the two chambers.

"Everything that was in the [House] reconciliation bill is great. So if we just have some of it, that'll be very good, and we look forward to that," Pelosi said.

"But I just don't know. As I think you know from the dynamic around here, the Senate negotiation is very close[ly] held."


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Nerm_L
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1  seeder  Nerm_L    2 years ago

Drip, drip, drip ...

 
 
 
Texan1211
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1.1  Texan1211  replied to  Nerm_L @1    2 years ago

Nancy still hopes to pass something significant in this Congress before she gets the boot.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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2  Sean Treacy    2 years ago

Some people just like to watch the world burn

 
 
 
mocowgirl
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3  mocowgirl    2 years ago
expressed some hope that whatever proposal might emerge will extend enhanced premium subsidies for millions of patients under ObamaCare. Those subsidies, adopted last year under Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, are scheduled to expire at the end of 2022 — an occurrence that vulnerable House Democrats are scrambling to prevent.

Is there anyone in DC that is not on Big Pharma's payroll?

 
 
 
Snuffy
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4  Snuffy    2 years ago

Every time I hear her speak it seems more and more pronounced that she has just become so out of touch with the people completely.  

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4.1  Texan1211  replied to  Snuffy @4    2 years ago

The Democratic Party's obsession with getting Trump and showing their 'woke' bona fides will be their downfall as millions of independents will stop voting for them.

 
 
 
Snuffy
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4.1.1  Snuffy  replied to  Texan1211 @4.1    2 years ago

And polling shows that their support among minority communities continues to shrink as more and more minorities are coming to realize the Democrat party isn't interested in them after the vote is collected.   It's looking more and more like a major loss for the Democrats in November.  I wish Pelosi would get the hint and decide to drop out before then.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4.1.2  Texan1211  replied to  Snuffy @4.1.1    2 years ago
And polling shows that their support among minority communities continues to shrink as more and more minorities are coming to realize the Democrat party isn't interested in them after the vote is collected.   It's looking more and more like a major loss for the Democrats in November.  I wish Pelosi would get the hint and decide to drop out before then.

I suspect that many minorities are tired of hearing some of their own labeled as Uncle Tom or Tio Thomas because they didn't go along with Democratic-group-think.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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5  Drinker of the Wry    2 years ago

There is also the soft bigotry of low expectations, the very wealthy, blue state of Maryland expects very little from the poor people of Baltimore.  

 
 

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