Moderates Threaten To Derail Democrats’ Climate-Heavy Budget Plan

A group of nine moderate House Democrats is threatening to derail the party’s effort to enact a $3.5 trillion budget “reconciliation” package that includes major climate initiatives, unless Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) first advances the Senate’s narrower, bipartisan infrastructure bill. “We will not consider voting for a budget resolution until the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passes the House and is signed into law,” says an Aug. 12 letter to Pelosi from the lawmakers, organized by Rep. Josh Gottheimer...