“It s not easy. .And I m sure that there are members of our caucus who are wary of voting for any budget resolution,” Yarmuth said.
Part of the headache for Democrats is that they have essentially no room for error. They need total unity from their 50 members in the Senate and near unity in the House, where they can spare four votes.
If they fail, Biden s biggest legislative priority is at risk of collapsing because agreement on a Democratic-only bill is key to progressives allowing the Senate’s smaller bipartisan bill to make it to Biden s desk.
Democrats will need to lean on their members twice: First to pass budget resolutions that include the ceiling for what they can spend on infrastructure and then a subsequent package that fleshes out the details on the Democratic-only package that will merge the pieces of Biden’s jobs and families plan that didn’t make the cut on the bipartisan deal.
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Advocates and Democratic lawmakers are increasingly concerned that health care measures, including lowering drug prices and expanding health coverage, are being left out of Biden s spending package, which is coming next week and is expected to include measures like paid leave and child care.
House Democrats on Thursday reintroduced their signature legislation to lower drug prices, known as H.R. 3, and Pelosi pointedly noted in a statement that including it in Biden s proposal is important for Democratic lawmakers. The measure would allow the secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate lower drug prices, a long-held Democratic goal.
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