'If we did not put those 'no' votes on the board and raise the stakes to force the party to deliver on all of these IOUs, I don't know if this vote would have happened tonight,' Ocasio-Cortez said.
on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan earlier this month helped accelerate the vote on the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act for human infrastructure.
. But Pelosi had initially promised progressives that the act and the bipartisan bill would be voted on simultaneously.who voted against the bipartisan bill on November 5, she explained in a virtual town hall held on Thursday evening. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that progressives'"no" vote on the $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan helped accelerate the vote on the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act for human infrastructure. Above, Ocasio-Cortez of New York speaks at the U.S. Climate Action Center during COP26 on November 9, 2021.The votes remained particularly contentious because the Democrats' progressive and moderate factions disagreed over what should be included in the BBB Act.
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