Top House Democrats are scrambling to get their caucus to vote for their reconciliation spending bill and the bipartisan infrastructure bill as early as this week – but a major roadblock will be a group of moderates who earlier this week demanded to see a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score for the bill.
“While there has been progress to address some of his concerns, there remain significant issues he is still working to address in the substance of the bill,” Nick Zeller, a spokesman for Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, who is one of those moderates, told Fox News Thursday. “That is in addition to the conditions he laid out earlier this week… around a CBO score, time to review, and pre-conferencing. I think you’ll agree those conditions have not been met.”
Golden laid out those conditions in a Tuesday letter he co-signed with Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., and Ed Case, D-Hawaii. Specifically, the members asked for 72 hours to review the final bill text before any vote, official scoring to reveal the “true cost of the legislation,” and an agreement with the Senate on the content of the bill before any vote.
In a Medium post Wednesday, Golden lauded means testing for child care, among other things, as improvements in the latest version of the reconciliation bill. But he also slammed the ending of the SALT cap that was added to the bill this week, and reiterated the three demands from the Tuesday letter.
In this April 27, 2019, file photo, Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, speaks in Bath, Maine. A spokesperson for Golden told Fox News conditions he set for his support of Democrats’ reconciliation bill have not yet been met. (AP Photo/David Sharp, File)
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