House Adopts $3.5 Trillion Budget Blueprint Backed by Biden (1)

The U.S. House adopted a $3.5 trillion budget resolution Tuesday after a White House pressure campaign and assurances from Speaker Nancy Pelosi helped unite fractious Democrats to move ahead on the core of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda.

The 220-212 vote puts to rest, for now, an intra-party rift between progressives and moderates that threatened to derail Pelosi’s strategy for shepherding through the budget framework and the separate $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill the House plans to pass by the end of next month.

WATCH: The U.S. House adopted a $3.5 trillion budget resolution.

Source: Bloomberg)

To avoid a showdown on the floor, Pelosi orchestrated Tuesday’s roll call to avoid ...