Pelosi Will Not Move $3.5 Trillion Budget Reconciliation Bill Through House Without a Senate Deal

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has made wide to her colleagues that she volition not determination a $3.5 trillion fund reconciliation measure seen arsenic cardinal to codifying overmuch of the Democratic docket into instrumentality done the House without an assurance that it volition walk the evenly-split Senate.

“I person promised members that we would not person House members ballot for a measure with a higher topline than would beryllium passed by the Senate. Hopefully, that volition beryllium astatine the $3.5 trillion number,” she wrote successful a “Dear Colleague” letter.

Pelosi noted that the measure volition person to beryllium amended to comply with the Senate’s fund reconciliation process,

“We indispensable beryllium prepared for adjustments according to the Byrd regularisation and the agreed to number,” she wrote, referencing the regularisation that prohibits the inclusion of “extraneous” measures successful reconciliation.

Although immoderate Democrats person called for the House to ballot connected the measure arsenic soon arsenic imaginable adjacent if 2 centrist votes successful the Senate, Senators Krysten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) haven’t yet signed disconnected connected it, Pelosi wants to debar a repetition of 2009. That year, the past clip Democrats controlled Congress, the House voted connected sweeping clime authorities that ne'er adjacent made it to the Senate floor. The blowback outgo Democrats power of the House successful the pursuing year’s midterm elections.