One thing stands between the House and Thanksgiving break: A vote on Biden’s social spending bill
One thing stands between the House and Thanksgiving break: A vote on President Joe Biden’s far-reaching social spending bill.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats are anxiously awaiting two key elements — the final nonpartisan cost analysis for the package and a guarantee from the Senate parliamentarian that, under the upper chamber's rules, the bill can pass on a simple majority vote. But other Democrats were privately much more pessimistic on the timing. They noted that while the Congressional Budget Office has made significant progress on its analysis of the bill, the unfinished “privilege scrub,” which ensures Democrats wouldn't have to worry about a Senate filibuster, is much more worrisome.
Despite centrists refusing to back the bill just two weeks ago amid outstanding cost questions, Democratic leaders now feel comfortable they have the votes to muscle the package through the House, even with the party’s razor-thin three vote margin and no expected Republican support. Between that and the final cost of the bill being tallied, senior Democrats now believe they’ll win over enough of the holdouts. Still, the majority party expects to lose at least one vote: Rep. Jared Golden , who has continued to complain about some provisions in the bill, such as aRepublicans have homed in on that provision — Democrats’ push to raise the cap on state and local tax deductions, known as SALT relief — as a potent political attack.
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