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Manchin balks at Dems’ push on climate change in reconciliation. “We’re transitioning right now. I said 20 years— 20 years ago 52% of all electricity United States came from coal. Down to 19% now and you want to continue to pay people to transition when they're already doing it.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Warren added: “Look, I know that a lot of people would say, let's try to break this thing apart, take it in smaller bites. But the reality is in the world of the filibuster, we have one bite at passing a lot of this through, and we cannot fail the American people.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Warren: “And it is important that we see now how that one package moves forward, because that's the only way that we have roads and bridges, and child care, and expanded Medicare coverage, and fight back in the climate crisis.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked Elizabeth Warren about House progressives threatening to tank infra if reconciliation hasn’t passed Senate. “Look, we had an agreement from the beginning. And that was that there would be one package, that might take multiple votes, but that one package would move forward” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MZanona: During a closed-door meeting this morning, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy urged Republicans to stick together over the n… — PolitiTweet.org

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House Dem leaders preaching unity to caucus this AM. Hoyer said next two weeks critical to passing both bills (reconcilation and infra) and will be key to their success next year in the midterms. Pelosi predicted both bills will pass and there will be unity, per attendees — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MZanona: If there’s a progressive revolt over infrastructure, Rs aren’t gonna bail out Dems. “The sense early on was, if it was the sq… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @maggieNYT: Trump has taken to saying he merely wanted Pence to send the tabulations “back to the states” and not to overturn the electi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AnnieGrayerCNN: NEW: Bennie Thompson says the select committee investigating 1/6 will likely send out subpoenas to companies and indivi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KatieBoLillis: News⁩: When CIA Director Bill Burns traveled to India earlier this month a member of his team reported symptoms consiste… — PolitiTweet.org

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- Pelosi tells Dems next 48 hours critical, but key issues unresolved ⁃WH and Manchin are talking ⁃Moderates want Pelosi to stick to Sept. 27 vote on infra ⁃But Jayapal warns they’ll sink infra if reconciliation not done: “We are not bluffing” https://t.co/7U9hwiP0Mm — PolitiTweet.org

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Pelosi only says the bill may be further narrowed by Senate budget rules. “We must be prepared for adjustments according to the Byrd rule and an agreed to number.” https://t.co/dTXCpnJoi2 — PolitiTweet.org

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This is important bc moderate House Dems had worried bill could be pared back in Senate and they’d be forced to vote on a more controversial bill in their chamber. But now it’s clear that whatever the House votes on will have been cleared by moderate Senate wing (Manchin, Sinema) — PolitiTweet.org

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Important news from Pelosi: She tells her members that the House reconcilation bill will have the same price tag as the Senate package. “I have promised Members that we would not have House Members vote for a bill with a higher topline than would be passed by the Senate.” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Arianedevogue: 2 new lawsuits have now been filed against that TX doctor who said he violated the state's six week abortion law. But bo… — PolitiTweet.org

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The House expected to pass stopgap bill to fund govt (with a debt ceiling hike) tomorrow. That could give Schumer time to set up key procedural vote in Senate for later this week. After GOP blocks it, that would leave just a handful of days to avoid shutdown by Sept. 30 deadline — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @morgan_rimmer: Jayapal to @mkraju, responding to moderate Dem claims that progressives are bluffing and won't kill the bipartisan bill… — PolitiTweet.org

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Pelosi tells us “it’s just question now of finalizing, and everything’s on schedule” on reconciliation and infra. Pelosi also would not say if Dems would take off the table using budget to pass a debt ceiling with no GOP votes. “We put out our path in the continuing resolution” https://t.co/7W8MDSuZ6n — PolitiTweet.org

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Pelosi told fellow top Dems tonight that the next 48 hours are crucial to determining whether a deal can come together quickly on the massive economic package. “Basically, everything's sort of dependent what happens in the next 48 hours,” Yarmuth told us. — PolitiTweet.org

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GOP Sen. John Kennedy says he’d consider voting for the stop-gap bill with a debt limit increase because it includes disaster aid for his hard-hit state of Louisiana. But he said flatly that it won’t get 60 votes — “not even close” — “and the White House knows that.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Romney reiterates he’s a NO on bill that would raise the debt ceiling. “I’m a no all the way around.” Says he’d vote against cloture on the bill, which would also keep government open past Sept. 30. Hard to see how Dems get 60 without Romney. — PolitiTweet.org

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Dick Durbin told reporters the Senate won’t overturn the ruling of the parliamentarian on immigration, saying simply the votes aren’t there to accomplish that. “I don't believe that’s realistic,” Durbin said. “I think the votes needed on the floor are not there.” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RamCNN: This lede... (CNN) Despite all the scientific and medical advances of the past 103 years, the Covid-19 pandemic has now killed… — PolitiTweet.org

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Durbin said he didn’t know if the Dem leadership had stood by its position that reconciliation won’t ultimately be used to raise debt ceiling, a process that would allow it to pass with just Dem votes but would open them up to many difficult votes — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked Dick Durbin what Dems will do to raise debt ceiling if GOP blocks it next week. "I don't know." He added he’s worried about default. "I am worried because I know Sen. McConnell makes these pronouncements and has a tendency to ignore the consequences,” citing Merrick Garland — PolitiTweet.org

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McConnell says they'd support a "clean" continuing resolution, or CR, to keep government open past Sept. 30 without a debt ceiling hike. Dems have added the debt limit hike to the CR. It's not clear what Dems will do next once GOP blocks the bill — PolitiTweet.org

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McConnell reiterates to Dems: "They will not get Senate Republicans help for raising the debt limit." Says it "might inconvenience" Democrats' plans. Dems will need 10 Rs to pass a CR with debt limit hike, but MM says: "We will not support legislation that raises the debt limit" — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked about the prediction by moderates that the liberals are bluffing and they won’t sink the infrastructure package next week, AOC said: “Well, I'm happy to show my cards.” — PolitiTweet.org

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She added: “We need to stay focused on the original process that allowed us to move forward in the first place. … I'm more than happy to vote for the infrastructure bill, if we're able to figure out a way to bring it up in a concurrent fashion with reconciliation.” — PolitiTweet.org

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AOC: “So this is the thing you have a very small destructive group of members who want to hold the entire country's agenda hostage for an arbitrary date. And this is not it's not representative of the agenda of the caucus is not representative of the agenda of the President” — PolitiTweet.org