House delays vote on sweeping social spending package, will resume Friday

The House Rules Committee is meeting Thursday evening to prepare for a final passage floor vote on the Build Back Better proposal.

House Democrats were on track Thursday night to pass their $1.75 trillion social and climate policy package, even as Republicans appeared to successfully delay a final vote until early Friday morning.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., took to the floor for more than four hours to rail against the bill and Democrats' agenda, knocking Democrats off their plans to approve the measure late Thursday evening.

"I know some of you are mad at me and think I have spoken too long, but I've had enough. America has had enough," he said, rallying his conference after a week of intraparty tensions over his leadership as the party seeks to recapture the House.

Earlier Thursday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the total Democratic package would add $160 billion to the national deficit over the next 10 years, an assessment requested by some moderate Democrats ahead of any vote to send the Build Back Better Act to the Senate.