The head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus threatened to shut down Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) plan to vote Friday on an infrastructure bill, releasing a statement sticking to the progressive demand that the bill should only move in tandem with a broader social benefits package that Democrats have sought for months.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said liberals are holding firm to their insistence that both bills move together. Progressives have the numbers to sink the infrastructure bill if it comes up alone - if they stick to that position.
A short time later, however Pelosi said she would move forward with the plan to vote Friday on the infrastructure bill. She indicated she thinks enough progressives will back it for it to pass.
The progressive statement was a a warning shot to Pelosi, who just moments earlier had announced tghe plan to vote Friday afternoon on the infrastructure bill and the rule on the larger benefits package - but not the package itself.
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