infrastructure package linked, you can t do one without the other and that s causing consternation from the moderate democrats not to say the republicans. and lucas tomlinson is in washingtons. house speaker nancy pelosi pledged to bring the $1 trillion infrastructure package to the floor for a vote, but it never happened. we don t know what the vote schedule is or isn t today. we leave that to speaker pelosi. there s plenty of hours of time left. and i canceled my flight an hour and a half from now, i want to be at home in my bed. my cat misses me. you don t believe me saying we re not going to have a vote. i knew we didn t have the votes and knew that. and according to the
from chairwoman pramila jayapal. the liberals would have to ask for a lot less on the social spending side. jayapal is a big winner in this. she said she had the votes to block the vote, and she made good on that promise. to be frank, house speaker nancy pelosi got rolled by progressives. pelosi insisted all week the house would vote on infrastructure and pass the social spending bill. it never happened. jayapal proved he had the cards. now, this underscores the progressive grip on the house democratic caucus. moderate democrats are incensed with pelosi. the speaker promised a vote last monday on infrastructure. blue dog [inaudible] ing murphy of florida said she was disillusioned by the process and said she was profoundly disappointed. and the cochair of the problem solvers caucus said pelosi, quote, breached her agreement with moderate democrats.
and three votes in the oust and maybe 1.9 to maybe 2.3 trillion dollars. so he was trying to lower that expectation, but then, to the moderate, he was saying, hey, we ve got to pass both bills together. so he was trying to address both of them and you saw what happened. you know, i think some people are not happy on both sides. progressives are not happy because that s not 3.5 trillion. but the some of us, we wanted this vote. it s a bipartisan bill. put it on the vote, on the floor, if it passes, it passes, but if it doesn t, it doesn t. but i it will you, it will pass. neil: you know, are you disappointed in the president? i mean, this stands the very likelihood of not happening at all, neither the infrastructure package or this far more
were supposed to have the vote on the 27th. and i think what the progressives are doing they were using the threat that it was the bill was going to sinkment i truly feel that this bill going to i mean talking about the infrastructure. i think we could have got enough democrats and even progressive who would not have voted against it, $1 trillion of infrastructure, roads, bridges, $2 million i mean two million jobs for the next 20 years, and we could have got the moderates, but it wasn t put to a vote which is unfortunate. neil: do you think then that nancy pelosi should have called progressive, or that the votes were there and that not all the progressive were against this and maybe, you know, would have
voted and we have the u.s. chamber and we have the manufacturers, and we have some of the other folks that were working on this to get this to work on the republicans, because you know what was the drill on the republican side, republican leadership was whipping no, but the business community was trying to get republicans to get there. so, i truly feel that if this would have been put on the floor, the republicans, some republicans would have voted in favor and then some of the progressives who said they wouldn t vote, they would have not voted to send billions of dollars to their states. i mean, some of the hard core probably not, hard core, probably not. i saw some of the names, i think some of them would not have gone against nancy pelosi if this would have been on the floor, but here we are talking about this infrastructure bill that is so close, so close to