进步民主党周二明确警告众议院议长南希·佩洛西和其他政党领导人，他们对乔·拜登总统的基础设施议程的立场保持不变:在没有更广泛的社会政策法案的情况下，他们不打算支持佩洛西希望在本周四进行投票的两党基础设施法案。
华盛顿特区国会进步党团主席普拉米拉·贾亚帕尔说:“我们在三个多月前阐明了这一立场，今天这一立场仍然没有改变:进步人士将投票支持这两项法案，但我们的大多数成员只会在总统富有远见的《重建更美好法案》通过后投票支持基础设施法案。，在一份声明中说道。
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她说:“这个议程不是一些边缘的愿望清单:这是总统的议程，民主党的议程，以及我们所有人在向我们交付众议院、参议院和白宫时向选民承诺的内容。
她补充说:“正如我们的成员三个月来明确表示的那样，两者是一体绑在一起的，我们只会在通过和解法案后投票支持基础设施法案。
贾亚帕尔此前曾指出，如果这项两党法案不与3.5万亿美元的社会政策法案同时通过，近100名核心小组中的60多名成员将对该法案投反对票。
不久之后，伯尼·桑德斯参议员在推文中敦促进步人士投票否决拜登和佩洛西希望通过的法案，他说，“我强烈敦促我的众议院同事投票反对两党的基础设施法案，直到国会通过一项强有力的和解法案。”
我强烈敦促我的众议院同事投票反对两党基础设施法案，直到国会通过一项强有力的和解法案。
—伯尼·桑德斯(@SenSanders)2021年9月28日
周二，民主党和共和党发出警告，计划在周四保留任何“赞成”票，希望确保民主党落败，在此期间，佩洛西可能会被迫改变计划。
几周来，温和派一直坚称，他们希望对上个月参议院通过的1.2万亿美元两党基础设施法案进行投票。
佩洛西在周一晚上的一次核心会议上私下召集民主党人，暗示她计划推进周四对参议院两党基础设施法案的投票，而不管与参议院就更大的民主党一揽子政策进行的谈判情况如何。
佩洛西对民主党人的声明是对她早先承诺的将两项立法一起推进的逆转。
佩洛西和她的领导团队在巨大的压力下一直在幕后努力工作，以在两派之间达成微妙的妥协。
在进步人士周二发出最新警告后不久，佩洛西拒绝评论她打算做什么，因为如果没有进步人士的支持，该法案将于周四在议会失败。
“我现在不想谈这个话题，”佩洛西告诉记者。
在周二下午发送的一封亲爱的同事信中，佩洛西暗示拜登正在牵头进行谈判努力。
“在我写这封信给你的时候，拜登总统正在领导谈判，以推进他的愿景。佩洛西在信中说:“总统对他的议程感到自豪，众议院和参议院民主党人压倒性地赞同他的议程，该议程创造就业机会，为中产阶级减税，降低医疗保健成本，并通过让最富有的少数人和大公司支付他们的公平份额来支付费用。
争论的焦点是在更广泛的社会支出法案中缺乏一个最高限额。3.5万亿美元的法案包括在医疗保健、儿童保健、高等教育、劳动力培训以及带薪家庭和医疗休假方面的重大新投资，其中包括大多数工作的美国人的12周带薪家庭和医疗休假。
但是温和的民主党人，包括西弗吉尼亚州的参议员乔·曼钦和亚利桑那州的基尔斯顿·西内马，已经明确表示，如果他们要支持它，价格需要低得多。
曼钦和西内马周二都在白宫分别会见了拜登。佩洛西在这些会议之前向记者明确表示，为了在和解法案上取得进展，像曼钦和西内马这样的参议员必须首先表明他们愿意支持多少支出。
佩洛西告诉记者:“所以在接下来的一天左右，我们希望来到一个我们可以在这方面向前推进的地方。
佩洛西补充说，她希望和解法案在拜登11月飞往格拉斯哥之前完成，这样他就可以在法案中宣传气候条款。
“我们希望总统能够带着一个计划去那里，以满足我们的使命、承诺和标准，以及我们对外国的技术承诺，帮助他们达到标准。所以，这是一个非常激动人心的时刻。这是一个非常大的议程。这是变革性的，”她说。
众议院民主党核心小组主席哈基姆·杰弗里斯(Hakeem Jeffries)表示，民主党人正在“一天一天”地接受这一计划，鉴于进步人士的反对，他不能说两党计划会在周四之前通过。
Progressive Democrats vow to defy Pelosi, vote no on infrastructure bill
Progressive Democrats on Tuesday starkly warned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other party leaders that their position on President Joe Biden's infrastructure agendaremains unchanged: Without a deal on a broader, social policy bill, they do not intend to support a bipartisan infrastructure bill that Pelosi wants to bring to a vote this Thursday.
“We articulated this position more than three months ago, and today it is still unchanged: progressives will vote for both bills, but a majority of our members will only vote for the infrastructure bill after the President’s visionary Build Back Better Act passes,” Congressional Progressive Caucus chairwoman Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said in a statement.
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“This agenda is not some fringe wish list: it is the President’s agenda, the Democratic agenda, and what we all promised voters when they delivered us the House, Senate, and White House,” she said.
“As our members have made clear for three months, the two are integrally tied together, and we will only vote for the infrastructure bill after passing the reconciliation bill,” she added.
Jayapal has previously noted that more than 60 members of the nearly 100-member caucus will vote no on the bipartisan bill if it is not passed in tandem with the $3.5 trillion social policy bill.
Shortly afterward, Sen. Bernie Sanders, in a tweet, urged progressives to vote down the bill Biden and Pelosi want passed, saying "I strongly urge my House colleagues to vote against the bipartisan infrastructure bill until Congress passes a strong reconciliation bill."
I strongly urge my House colleagues to vote against the bipartisan infrastructure bill until Congress passes a strong reconciliation bill.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders)September 28, 2021
Between Tuesday's warnings from Democrats and Republicans planning to withhold any "yes" votes Thursday in hopes of ensuring a Democratic defeat, Pelosi might be forced to change plans.
Moderates have insisted for weeks they want a vote on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that cleared the Senate last month.
Pelosi privately rallied Democrats in a caucus meeting Monday evening, signaling she plans to push forward with a Thursday vote on the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure bill, regardless of the status of negotiations on the larger Democratic policy package with the Senate.
Pelosi's announcement to Democrats was a reversal of her earlier pledge to move both pieces of legislation together.
Pelosi and her leadership team have been working furiously behind the scenes under intense pressure to strike a delicate compromise between both factions.
Moments after progressives sent out their latest warning Tuesday, Pelosi refused to comment on what she intends to do, given that the bill will fail on the floor Thursday without progressives’ support.
“I’m not having that conversation right now,” Pelosi told reporters.
In a dear colleague letter sent Tuesday afternoon, Pelosi suggested Biden was taking the lead on negotiation efforts.
“As I write this to you, negotiations are being led by President Biden to advance his vision. The President takes a pride in his agenda, which is shared overwhelmingly by House and Senate Democrats, which creates jobs, gives tax cuts for the middle class, lowers costs for health care and is paid by making the wealthiest few and big corporations pay their fair share,” Pelosi said in the letter.
At issue is the lack of a topline number on the broader, social spending bill. The $3.5 trillion bill includes significant new investments in health care, child care, higher education, workforce training, and paid family and medical leave which would include 12 weeks paid family and medical leave for most working Americans.
But moderate Democrats, including Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have made clear the price tag needs to be much lower if they are to support it.
Manchin and Sinema both met separately with Biden at the White House Tuesday. Pelosi made clear to reporters ahead of those meetings that in order for progress to be made on the reconciliation bill, senators like Manchin and Sinema must first indicate how much spending they are willing to support.
"So in the next day or so, we hope to come to a place where we can move forward on that," Pelosi told reporters.
Pelosi added that she wants the reconciliation bill done before Biden jets off to Glasgow in November, so he can tout the climate provisions in the bill.
"We want the president to be able to go there with a plan to meet our missions, promises and standards as well as our commitments to foreign nations for the technology to help meet their standards, as well. So, it's a pretty exciting time. It's a very big agenda. And it is transformative," she said.
House Democratic caucus chairman Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats are taking it "one day at a time" and couldn't say that the bipartisan plan will pass by Thursday, given the opposition from progressives.
