弗吉尼亚州亚历山大——参议院通过两党基础设施法案被搁置，直到参议院也向众议院提交一份包括民主党其他关键优先事项的预算法案，但民主党全国委员会主席海梅·哈里森相信，党的领导层将把这两项法案提交给总统乔·拜登桌子。
哈里森说，尽管一些关键的温和派仍然反对当前的形势，但他仍然持积极态度3.5万亿美元的价格标签预算法案。
“你在立法过程中要经历这个过程。哈里森在一次简短的采访中告诉美国广播公司新闻:“这是你得到的推拉，你知道，这个群体想要这个，这个群体想要那个。“一天结束时，你会看到南希·佩洛西和查克·舒默这两位国会中最精明的交易撮合者。我相信他们能够完成这项工作。”
在与记者发生口角后，哈里森在弗吉尼亚州民主党全国委员会“重建得更好”巴士之旅的启动活动后接受了美国广播公司新闻的独家采访，以在国会休会期间宣传拜登的议程。正在竞选返回州长官邸的前弗吉尼亚州州长特里·麦考利夫和哈里森一起参加了活动，副州长提名人哈拉·阿亚拉、众议员唐·拜尔以及众议院议长和多数党领袖也参加了活动。
在整个巴士之旅中，哈里森将在全国10多个州停留，州长、市长和国会议员将与哈里森一起告诉选民，在拜登政府执政期间，民主党迄今为止取得了哪些成就。
“我们要去全国各地...确保我们发出信息，让人们知道他们的代表是否真的传递了信息，”哈里森告诉美国广播公司新闻，他提到了未来对北卡罗来纳州和南卡罗来纳州的访问，这是他的家乡，他在去年与共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆的竞选中打破了筹款记录。
共和党全国委员会发言人萨凡纳·维亚在一份声明中说，民主党全国委员会正试图“说服弗吉尼亚人，民主党的‘D’代表‘兑现’。”
“然而，弗吉尼亚人知道民主党的‘D’真的代表令人失望、无组织和灾难性的，”维亚说。
问及据报道发表了评论本月，民主党国会委员会主席肖恩·帕特里克·马洛尼(Sean Patrick Maloney)表示，如果2022年大选现在举行，民主党将失去在众议院的微弱多数，而不需要重新启动信息传递，哈里森表示，进入中期选举的信息需要是“民主党人传递的”。
他说，民主党人需要为他们所通过的法案受到称赞儿童税收抵免和通过薪水保护计划的贷款。
“这是连接点...让他们明白，由于民主党的领导，他们的生活正在改善。在上届民主党政府中，我们在这方面做得不好，”哈里森说。
在2010年中期选举中，这是巴拉克·奥巴马总统上任后的首次重大选举，民主党遭遇惨败，失去了63个众议院席位和6个参议院席位。
在州长竞选中，前民主党全国委员会主席麦考利夫(McAuliffe)也在华盛顿兜售民主党的议程，与他40年的朋友总统保持密切联系。
“因为乔·拜登和‘重建得更好’，企业仍在经营，而不会在经营。”...850万弗吉尼亚人中有700万人受益于美国救援计划，想想吧——70亿美元的经济活动被带到弗吉尼亚联邦，用于我们的购买力平价贷款，”麦考利夫周四在弗吉尼亚说。“所以，是乔·拜登和民主党人提升了弗吉尼亚州和全国的每一个小企业。”
当被美国广播公司(ABC News)问及众议院议长南希·佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)计划在参议院民主党人也兑现昂贵的预算法案之前，等待接受两党基础设施法案时，麦考利夫说，“我给美国国会的唯一信息是通过它，并尽快通过。”
DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison confident Democrats will deliver party's infrastructure priorities
ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- The Senate-passedbipartisan infrastructure billis on hold until the Senate also sends the House a budget bill including other key Democratic priorities, but Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison is confident party leadership will get both bills to PresidentJoe Biden's desk.
Harrison said he remains positive even as some key moderates remain opposed to the current$3.5 trillion price tagof the budget bill.
"You go through this process in the legislative process. It's the push and pull that you get, you know, this group wants this, this group wants that," Harrison told ABC News in a brief interview. "And at the end of the day, you've got two of the most masterful dealmakers on the Hill in Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. I'm sure they're going to be able to get it done."
Following a gaggle with reporters, Harrison spoke exclusively to ABC News after the kickoff event in Virginia for the DNC's "Build Back Better" bus tour to promote Biden's agenda during the congressional recess. Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who's campaigning to return to the governor's mansion, joined Harrison at the event, along with lieutenant governor nominee Hala Ayala, Rep. Don Beyer and both the speaker and majority leader of the House of Delegates.
Throughout the bus tour, which will make stops in more than 10 states nationwide, Harrison will be joined by governors, mayors and members of Congress to tell voters what Democrats have delivered so far under the Biden administration.
"We're going across the country ... making sure that we put out the message and letting people know whether or not their representative actually delivered," Harrison told ABC News, mentioning future stops to North Carolina and South Carolina, his home state where he broke fundraising records in his unsuccessful bid against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham last year.
In a statement, Republican National Committee spokesperson Savannah Viar said that DNC is trying to "convince Virginians that the 'D' in Democrats stands for 'deliver.'
"However, Virginians know that the 'D' in Democrats really stands for disappointing, disorganized, and disastrous," Viar said.
Asked aboutcomments reportedly madeby Democratic Congressional Committee Chairman Sean Patrick Maloney this month that if the 2022 general election were held right now, Democrats would lose their slim majority in the House without a messaging reboot, Harrison said the message going into the midterms needs to be "that Democrats deliver."
Democrats need to take credit for what they passed, he said, mentioning thechild tax creditand loans through the Paycheck Protection Program.
"It's connecting the dots ... so that they understand that they are seeing in the improvements in their lives is happening because of the Democratic leadership. We didn't do a good job of that in the last Democratic administration," Harrison said.
During the 2010 midterm elections, the first major election after President Barack Obama took office, Democrats suffered bruising defeats, losing 63 House seats and six Senate seats.
In his gubernatorial campaign, McAuliffe, a former DNC chairman, has also touted the Democrats' agenda in Washington, closely aligning himself with the president, his friend of 40 years.
"Because of Joe Biden and 'Build Back Better,' businesses are still in business that would not be in business... 7 million of the 8 and a half million Virginians benefited from the American Rescue Plan, think of that -- $7 billion of economic activity was brought here to the Commonwealth of Virginia for our PPP loans," McAuliffe said in Virginia Thursday. "So Joe Biden and the Democrats are the ones who have lifted up every small business here in Virginia and across this country."
Asked by ABC News about Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan to wait to take up the bipartisan infrastructure bill -- which includes significant investments in expanding broadband, a key promise McAuliffe has made to Virginians in his campaign -- until Democrats in the Senate also deliver on the pricey budget bill, McAuliffe said, "My only message to the United States Congress is pass it, and pass it as fast as you can."
