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pelosi strikes deal with dem dissenters and bill gets a pass
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...mpasse-to-adopt-35t-budget-plan?userid=870671House Democrats break internal impasse to adopt $3.5T budget plan
House Democrats on Tuesday rallied behind a new strategy to advance President Biden’s economic agenda, shortly after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) struck a deal with a small band of moderates who were threatening to blow up leadership’s carefully laid plans to pass trillions of dollars in federal spending.
The House voted 220-212, strictly along party lines, to adopt a rule that allows Democrats to immediately begin work on a massive $3.5 trillion social benefits package. The rule also requires the lower chamber to take up the Senate-passed bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill by Sept. 27.