The timetable for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to bring up Democrats’ health care, education and climate package slipped to Friday after lawmakers hit snags on immigration and the state and local tax deduction, the Wall Street Journal reported. The California Democrat initially told House Democrats in a closed-door meeting yesterday that she hoped the House would vote on the bill later that day, then vote on the Senate-passed infrastructure bill on Friday. Progressives have been blocking the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill until they are satisfied with the language in the social-spending and climate-change bill. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said late yesterday that the House would instead take up both pieces of legislation as soon as today, again pushing back on Democrats’ efforts to advance much of President Biden’s agenda through Congress. While the infrastructure bill would go to Mr. Biden for his signature after House passage, the nearly $2 trillion health care, education and climate bill will face likely changes in the Senate.
