House Democrats will postpone a budget vote as progressives push to raise spending caps
The intraparty debate exposes the Democrats' first big policy rift in their new majority. House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth said the House is no longer set to vote on the bill Wednesday, and he argued the party is just experiencing growing pains, with so many members who have never been in the majority before and have never had to govern."I don't think we'd have the votes if we went to the floor right now," the Kentucky Democrat said.
"With no Republican votes, we can only lose 17 votes on anything," Yarmuth said Tuesday morning."So, obviously, any caucus can bring down anything on any bill. We have to figure out if we are going to be able to govern or not. This is our first test of it."Yarmuth said that if Democrats can't agree among themselves, it"minimizes our leverage" in negotiations with the Senate and the White House.
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