Deadline day brings delayed reckoning for progressives: The Note

Thursday’s delayed deadline for a House vote on the bipartisan infrastructure package could again be pushed off, amid Democrat uncertainty and mistrust.

The TAKE with Rick Klein

The clash of Democrats has been put off through eight months of the Biden presidency -- and was largely sidelined by four years of the Trump presidency before that.

There’s nothing new about the Democrats’ moderate vs. progressive split, except for the stakes, and a little baseball diplomacy doesn’t really change them. Thursday’s delayed deadline for a House vote on the bipartisan infrastructure package could again be pushed off, amid uncertainty and mistrust now seeping throughout the party’s ideological spectrum.

Progressives are clamoring to clarify what a few -- really just two -- Senate moderates actually want, a cause the White House has joined. But it’s what a far larger group of House progressives want that casts uncertainty over the $1.2 trillion package that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said would get a vote this week.