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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone know which Dems voted against the infrastructure bill?
Pragmatism has to be the watch word now as we need to get things done so projects and jobs can get rolling before the mid-terms. Is it correct that if several republicans hadn't vote for the bill it would've failed because six Dems voted against it?
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)They waited to vote against until after the Republicans already voted for.
bottomofthehill
(8,317 posts)OMAR (D-Minn)
BUSH (D-Mo)
BOWMAN (D-NY)
AOC (D-NY)
TLAIB (D-MICH)
PRESSLEY(D-MASS)
Decoy of Fenris
(1,954 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,128 posts)bridges and roads?
Decoy of Fenris
(1,954 posts)MichMan
(11,864 posts)Decoy of Fenris
(1,954 posts)Right-wing Dems have threatened the Biden Agenda for months and have held a gun to Biden's head on several occasions. A protest vote means -very- little outside of the sentiment when genuinely right-wing Dems threaten to blow Biden away, legislatively and electorally.
snowybirdie
(5,219 posts)AOC and the Squad. Protesting it wasn't enough, but with the permission of Speaker Pelosi.
JohnSJ
(92,060 posts)progressive caucus voted for it
Beastly Boy
(9,229 posts)Were they to vote for the bill despite their previous pledge to vote against it under present circumstances, not only would they go back on their word and lose face, they would also run the risk of being "primaried" by weaker candidates who, in turn, could lose in the general election to Republicans a year from now.
I am by no means a fan of the Squad, but the fact that they voted their conscience without endangering the passage of the bill speaks well of them.
MichMan
(11,864 posts)Roads & bridges, mass transit, green energy?
I would think any primary challengers will use this vote against them now.
Beastly Boy
(9,229 posts)They opposed the timing of the vote, or rather the sequence of the vote on the two bills. The Squad pledged, as they promised to the people who elected them, to vote against the infrastructure bill unless the social spending bill gets voted on first. They kept their promise.
I am not commenting on their judgement, or that of their constituents. It is what it is. I am just glad they acted in a way that didn't endanger the passage of the bill.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,884 posts)leftstreet
(36,097 posts)By the time Manchin, Sinema and the "moderate" Dems get done with it, it'll be the Build Back Barely bill.
No leverage now to get anything decent out of it that could help us or the Dems in the midterms
Oh well