These things are related. If you re going to build the infrastructure, you have to have workforce development, Pelosi said Thursday, defending the strategy.
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Democrats have been vague about how those pieces would fit together as the debate evolves, with some suggesting party leaders should simply lump everything together into an enormous package and move it to Biden s desk using a procedural gambit, known as reconciliation, that would prevent Senate Republicans from blocking it with a filibuster.
Yet Pelosi says she s still holding out hope for bipartisan support at least on the physical infrastructure portion of the package and predicted Thursday that Democrats will split the legislation into two pieces.