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Nine moderate House Democrats intend to tell Speaker Nancy Pelosi that they won't back a vote on a budget plan until an infrastructure bill is passed.

Friday, August 13, 2021 6:30 AM EST

The pledge, in a letter expected to be released on Friday, is a major rift that threatens the carefully choreographed, two-track effort by congressional Democrats and the Biden administration to enact both a trillion-dollar, bipartisan infrastructure deal and an even more ambitious — but partisan — social policy measure.

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