Democrats
“We would need votes coming from both ways,” said Rep. Chris Collins. “Pelosi I guess won’t vote for it, but … I do think we will have a number of Democrats that would break.”
He was certainly right about his assessment of Nancy Pelosi, who took a long time to make her case.
She said “our basic request is honor the House of Representatives, give us a chance to have a vote on the floor.”
She cited her refusal to vote for any deal unless Paul Ryan got on board.
The question was asked if Paul Ryan would give in to demands on the Democrats immigration policy. The idea was that he might need to do so to get the spending deal passed.
“If he wants to remain speaker of the House, he needs to be very careful with that,” Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador said.
If this was the case and no one was going to budge we could very well see another Government Shutdown.
Chuck Schumer was one of those who formulated the deal along with Mitch McConnell. This meant that Schumer and Pelosi couldn’t be on the same page on some matters.
It was a wait and see now as the House needed the votes to pass the bill and some from both sides weren’t on board.
