Sahil Kapur

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

.@BernieSanders + 10 Democratic senators say: "The House of Representatives should wait to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill until the budget reconciliation bill, which enacts the rest of the President’s Build Back Better agenda, is sent to the President’s desk." https://t.co/rzcd93RaBN — PolitiTweet.org

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@LPDonovan tend to agree they would never have been the diff between failure/passage (though some mod Dems hoped otherwise), but then what do you think the point of this formal whip notice is? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MSNBC: "President Biden's agenda does face a real risk of going off the rails if he cannot resolve the divisions," @sahilkapur reports… — PolitiTweet.org

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@LPDonovan that’s right. but they could’ve also not whipped. this gets awkward for PSC Rs who did pressers with Dem mods touting the bill and demanding a vote — PolitiTweet.org

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Bipartisan talks on police reform are dead. This project stalled out months ago but nobody wanted to announce it's officially over. That changed today. https://t.co/9S9gnCnbIk — PolitiTweet.org

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

DeFazio on BIF: “They basically took out all of our climate provisions. They took my electric bus program, and they cut it and then they said oh, and a third of the money has to be spent on fossil fuel buses. I mean, they're such jerks… The industry could’ve written their bill.” — PolitiTweet.org

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House Transportation Chair @RepPeterDeFazio on Senate infrastructure bill: “The crap written by those 12 rump senators, who are all pro-fossil-fuel actually, does virtually nothing to reduce fossil fuel pollution from transportation. So I'm trying to fix that in reconciliation.” — PolitiTweet.org

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News: House Republican leaders are whipping members to vote NO on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which passed the Senate 69-30. This, ironically, strengthens @RepJayapal’s hand to pair it with reconciliation. Minimizes the chances GOP votes make up for liberal defections. — PolitiTweet.org

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GALLUP POLL: President Biden’s job approval rating slips to 43%, with disapproval rising to 53%. https://t.co/pVr8BZTlS2 https://t.co/UIcNXSVVQO — PolitiTweet.org

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“To beat the pandemic here we need to beat it everywhere,” Biden says, adding that America will be the “arsenal of vaccines.” — PolitiTweet.org

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WASHINGTON — Congress has a lot on its plate. Here's where everything stands. https://t.co/Bn19UI8EYc — PolitiTweet.org

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@ddayen @davidsirota @dailyposter @TheProspect @theintercept have asked dozens of lawmakers and aides and concluded months ago this was a credible position. and not at all downplaying the work you did/do David, I read you often — PolitiTweet.org

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@KimLMathers @ddayen @davidsirota @dailyposter @TheProspect @theintercept it’s both. liberals want them linked (from the start) and say they’ll stop one without the other. centrists want them de-linked and threatened to kill the budget res to that end — PolitiTweet.org

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@ddayen @davidsirota @dailyposter @TheProspect @theintercept I’m not an official spokesman for Washington Reporters(TM) but we at NBC have been covering the credible progressive threats to tank BIF sans reconciliation since at least June! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BenjySarlin: Yep: "Without Manchin getting down to brass tacks and announcing what he can actually support, centrists and liberals alik… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytimes: Breaking News: The Trump campaign knew days after the 2020 election that wild claims of voting machine tampering — pushed by S… — PolitiTweet.org

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On @JoeBiden’s schedule tomorrow. (The White House has not said which lawmakers he’s meeting with.) https://t.co/4vcyoSkSIR — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZacharyKeck UC can skip all the hurdles and pass anything in a heartbeat And they could but they don’t seem to have 50 votes — PolitiTweet.org

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Senate changed its rules starting in the 1970s and gave rise to the “silent” filibuster. The new rules say you no longer have to hold the floor and talk. A senator can register an objection, and defeating it requires 60 votes to cut off “debate” and move forward. — PolitiTweet.org

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This bill faces an uphill climb in the Senate, where Republicans led by Mitch McConnell have threatened to filibuster it due to the inclusion of a debt ceiling extension. It'll need 60, i.e. at least 10 GOP votes. w/ @haleytalbotnbc @DartDClark: https://t.co/BvA0ytMVdf — PolitiTweet.org

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NEWS: House votes 220-211 on a bill to fund the government through 12/3/2021, extend the debt ceiling to 12/2022, and provide funding for disaster relief and to assist Afghan evacuees. A straight party line vote. All Republicans vote no. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Senate takes a step toward confirming a new CFPB director. This pulls the nomination out of committee and sets up a final vote: — PolitiTweet.org

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HOYER says the House will take up a bill this week on suspension of the rules (i.e. it'll move speedily and need two-thirds to pass) to fund Israel's Iron Dome, calling it "absolutely essential." It was stripped out of this gov't funding bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@RepJayapal laughed out loud when asked if she’s confident Republicans won’t swoop in and help pass the infrastructure bill over progressive defections on 9/27. “Yes,” she said. “Yes, I’m very confident about that.” — PolitiTweet.org

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So now the Democrats are pretty much back where they started. The bills are linked not because of procedural decisions by leadership but because — if Jayapal’s whip count is to be believed — the votes aren’t there to pass infrastructure without the larger bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pelosi said in June infrastructure and Build Back Better would be linked after progressives convinced her they’d oppose BIF sans BBB. In August, the centrist 9 fought to de-link them and won a 9/27 vote-by promise. But the left never said they’d vote yes. Quite the contrary. — PolitiTweet.org

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There is no Plan B for Democrats right now on the debt ceiling. They expect Republicans to cave. — PolitiTweet.org

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Rep. Slotkin tells me she has received assurances from House Approps Chair Rosa DeLauro that Iron Dome money will come up separately — either as a stand-alone or in defense approps. She’s “unhappy” with move to pull that funding. “But it's also important to fund the government.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Do the math and — if Jayapal’s whip count is right — it doesn’t appear possible to meet 9/27 deadline to give final House passage to infrastructure. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @frankthorp: Schumer to @sahilkapur today on if the Senate could finish reconciliation by Sept 27: “No I don't think we could even proce… — PolitiTweet.org