WASHINGTON, D.C. (NAFB) – The fate of a trillion-dollar Senate-passed infrastructure bill now rests on a commitment by House Democratic leaders to hold a late September vote, but still do so after a final budget package popular with progressives is ready.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Rules Chairman Jim McGovern guaranteed their offer to Democratic moderates, to hold a vote on infrastructure, by a date certain. McGovern…

Moderates wanted work to start sooner on roads, bridges, pipes, ports, locks, rail, transit and high-speed broadband. Others want massive social and green energy spending first.

Top Rules Republican Tom Cole’s view.

Ensuring party progressives get their priorities first while pressuring moderates to go along in order to get infrastructure.

House Republicans, like their Senate colleagues, oppose the budget’s $3.5 trillion-dollar price tag and its possible worsening of the national debt and inflation. Rules Republican Michael Burgess.

Still, Rules Chair McGovern argued the chance to advance so much that’s good in the budget, should make it too hard to pass up.