Congress is tangled in interlocking bills and delayed crises. Here’s the real status and deadline on infrastructure, reconciliation, and the rest
It won’t be easy for the three Democratic leaders to navigate the weeks just ahead. Photo: The Washington Post/The Washington Post via Getty Images As you are likely aware, this year Democrats in Congress are attempting to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a massive reconciliation bill containing much of President Biden’s agenda, while simultaneously avoiding a debt-ceiling crisis and a government shutdown.
When do they say it will be done? Pelosi has set a revised deadline of October 31, guaranteeing many bad jokes about the horror of failure. Everyone agrees that once there is a reconciliation agreement, the infrastructure bill can move forward, but Democrats differ on how much agreement is necessary .
What’s the holdup? Democrats need unanimous support in the Senate and near-unanimous support in the House to get a reconciliation bill enacted. Two senators, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, have separately objected to the $3.5 trillion price tag and multiple provisions in the bill that have been slowly emerging in congressional committees and in a series of negotiations. House and Senate progressives typically think $3.
What’s the real deadline? Technically, the budget resolution that authorized the reconciliation bill remains in effect until the end of FY 2022 on September 30, 2022. Democrats could also choose to roll over certain provisions contemplated for the Build Back Better legislation into a new FY 2023 budget resolution and reconciliation bill.
Right after the vote, though, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer made a floor speech blaming the whole contrived mess on Republicans, and an allegedly offended McConnell vowed never to extend Democrats a debt-limit lifeline again. So the two parties are back where they were before heading toward a new debt-limit “cliff.”
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