Pelosi warns House members won’t go to thank you until Build Back Better is passed

Nancy Pelosi warns the House that members won’t go to Thanksgiving until Biden’s $1.8 trillion Build Back Better bill is passed — but will Joe still take his family trip to Nantucket?

  • The House may take a $1.75 trillion package as soon as Wednesday
  • Earlier this month a group of progressives allowed bipartisan infrastructure legislation to go ahead
  • Many MPs have travel plans
  • President Biden plans to pardon the traditional national turkey and an alternative Friday
  • He then hopes to maintain his family tradition of going to Nantucket, Mass.
  • Biden signed infrastructure package into law on Monday










house speaker Nancy Pelosic is using an age-old pressure tactic as she tries to garner votes to pass President Biden’s Build Back Better plan – saying lawmakers won’t go home Thank you Leave until they vote on it.

Pelosi’s efforts to bring the $1.75 trillion measure up to the vote have been repeatedly stalled – though she eventually won a House pass of Biden’s $1.1 trillion infrastructure package before a split break, a week Veterans Day holiday.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told aides the Build Back Better plan is due Wednesday, with voting possible on Thursday, Friday or Saturday.

Pelosi told fellow Democrats that the House would not go home until the bill was passed, CNN informed of.

United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Democrat of California), right, arrives with United States House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Democrat of Maryland), left, and United States House Majority Whip James Clyburn. She told members of her caucus that she would not send the House for Thanksgiving until this ‘Build Back Better’ had passed.

Adding uncertainty to the situation is the Congressional Budget Office, which will still have to provide scores for parts of the bill.

A group of House centrists refused to vote for the plan until they knew how much it would cost – eventually signing a letter to vote for it in the week of November 15.

Democratic leaders had hoped to act on the infrastructure bill months ago, but Biden only signed it into law on Monday, after repeated delays amid talks between centrists and progressives.

Now, with a key legislative piece in place — Biden flew to New Hampshire on Monday to help sell it — the House is working on a measure that still holds out from holdout Sen. Joe Manchin (DW.Va.). Is facing objections, which means more negotiation is needed.

President Joe Biden makes his way to board Air Force One before departing Andrews Air Force Base on November 16, 2021 in Maryland.  Biden heads to Woodstock, New Hampshire to promote new infrastructure law

President Joe Biden makes his way to board Air Force One before departing Andrews Air Force Base on November 16, 2021 in Maryland. Biden heads to Woodstock, New Hampshire to promote new infrastructure law

President Joe Biden and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu remove their face masks to climb Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.  Landrieu is advising Biden to implement the infrastructure law

President Joe Biden and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu remove their face masks to climb Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Tuesday. Landrieu is advising Biden to implement the infrastructure law

Last week, Manchin complained about a $4,500 grant to purchase electric vehicles under the bill — but only for those made in the US by union shots, effectively meant by Detroit.

Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), a top organized labor advocate in the Midwest, was not worried when asked by DailyMail.com about Manchin’s complaints.

‘No. People say all kinds of things. None of this surprises me and we’re going to pass the bill,’ Brown said Monday at the White House.

Along with planning his own getaway, Biden also has Thanksgiving on his mind. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Friday, she plans to attend the traditional Thanksgiving turkey pardon at the White House – with both the national bird and an ‘optional’ one.

Then, Biden plans to perpetuate an old tradition by flying to Nantucket to be with the family—if Congress doesn’t thwart his plans with any legislative drama.

‘We believe we’re going to get 50 votes in the Senate for the Build Back Better Act,’ with White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates on his way to New Hampshire.

Bates also stressed Monday night’s reports that the Congressional Budget Office’s score for the plan could not show it paid off in full. Democrats have said increased IRS enforcement could generate hundreds of billions in revenue.

“There is a broad consensus that CBOs do not have the experience to analyze the amount of revenue generated by cracking down on wealthy tax cheats taking advantage of honest taxpayers,” he said.

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