The House is ready to vote on President Joe Biden’s signature care economy and infrastructure proposals Friday. Maybe. While the first vote of the day (a Republican nuisance motion to adjourn) was ongoing, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was still whipping for conservative Democratic votes from the Sabotage Squad. Now that the Congressional Progressive Caucus is enthusiastically supporting both bills—the Build Back Better (BBB) human infrastructure and climate bill and the bipartisan hard infrastructure (BIF) proposal—the saboteurs are coming up with more and more excuses to delay. If nothing else, it demonstrates just how clever the progressives were to insist on the two bills being linked. The conservative Democrats and their Senate counterparts and cheerleaders Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have proven untrustworthy. They’ve been trying to renege on the deal for the linked votes for months, with the only aim seeming to be preventing the larger care economy and climate change plan from passing. The moderates have been demanding a thing that leadership says won’t happen for a few weeks—a Congressional Budget Office score. They already have a Joint Committee on Taxation score to work with, and the Senate will make changes, and thus the CBO score on this package won’t be final anyway. It’s all just seeming like the saboteurs are back to making up reasons not to pass this bill. Read more