Sept. 27, 2021: ‘Everything is hanging by a thread’
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Congress is three days out from a critical vote on a key plank of the
president’s agenda — a massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure package
(BIF) — and President Joe Biden and House Democratic leaders haven’t
even started the whipping process, we’re told from sources across the
Democratic spectrum.
Our colleagues Natasha Korecki and Laura Barrón-López reported Sunday
night that the president was making calls and doing Zoom sessions from
Camp David over the weekend on BIF and the larger reconciliation
package. But the seeming lack of urgency so far — given the sheer scale
of the task and mere days to complete it — is alarming some House
Democrats going into a critical week, multiple people involved told us
Sunday night.
“I don’t understand why the president isn’t whipping his own historic
bill,” said one moderate House Democrat.
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Raghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.
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Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.
Congress is three days out from a critical vote on a key plank of the president’s agenda — a massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure package (BIF) — and President Joe Biden and House Democratic leaders haven’t even started the whipping process, we’re told from sources across the Democratic spectrum.
Our colleagues Natasha Korecki and Laura Barrón-López reported Sunday night that the president was making calls and doing Zoom sessions from Camp David over the weekend on BIF and the larger reconciliation package. But the seeming lack of urgency so far — given the sheer scale of the task and mere days to complete it — is alarming some House Democrats going into a critical week, multiple people involved told us Sunday night.
“I don’t understand why the president isn’t whipping his own historic bill,” said one moderate House Democrat.
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Raghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.
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Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.