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The speakers goal of passing both measures in September was designed to get moderates to relent on demanding the infrastructure vote this week ahead of the budget, but it hasn't worked.

Time kills deals. This is an old business saying and the essence of why we are pushing to get the bipartisan infrastructure bill through Congress and immediately to President Bidens desk as the president himself requested the day after it passed the Senate, the group of nine moderate Democrats wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece published Sunday night.

Dozens of progressive Democrats have said they wont vote for the infrastructure bill without the Senate passing the reconciliation package, because theyre concerned their more moderate colleagues will try to pare down the $3.5 trillion leaders and the White House agreed to or oppose the measure all together.

The moderates nodded to that in their op-ed, saying theyre in a standoff with some of our colleagues who have decided to hold the infrastructure bill hostage for months, or kill it altogether, if they dont get what they want in the next bill a largely undefined $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.

While we have concerns about the level of spending and potential revenue raisers, we are open to immediate consideration of that package, they wrote. But we are firmly opposed to holding the presidents infrastructure legislation hostage to reconciliation, risking its passage and the bipartisan support behind it.

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Democrats to meet on budget as moderate holdouts face pressure - Roll Call