Grace Segers wrote this piece for The New Republic on how the US legislative bodies are demonstrating time and again their dysfunctionality.īecause there is little bipartisan overlap between the two parties, reconciliation has basically become the only option for the majority party to pass any of its priorities, because the minority will filibuster most every other issue. Senator Manchin says he made no such agreement. Moderates want to unhitch the two bills but progressives have pushed back and there is a risk they will tank the infrastructure bill if two holdout Senators, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, don't follow through on their supposed promise. The plan was to pass both spending packages at the same time.Ĭurrently, Democratic leadership is negotiating off the floor on whether and when to move the infrastructure bill forward.
The bill has been stalled in the House while Democrats drafted their reconciliation budget bill to include the parts of President Biden's agenda that was left out. The House is also supposed to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate in August.
But the day isn't done for lawmakers in the lower chamber. The short-term funding measure will keep the government going until at least 3 December. The House's other business today, the infrastructure billĬongress managed to get a stopgap funding bill passed on Thursday averting a partial government shutdown.
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