Congress is out this week for the Veterans Day holiday, which means a week of posturing and trying to poison the well for next week’s push on President Joe Biden’s family and climate change Build Back Better plan. It’s all about trying to wedge the conservative Democrats even further away from the majority of their colleagues. And in one case, it’s a Democrat doing it. The Congressional Budget Office advised lawmakers Tuesday that it likely would not be able to provide a full score of the BBB bill by next week, when Speaker Pelosi has said the House will vote. The conservative hold-outs in the caucus had reached an agreement with progressives that if they helped pass the hard infrastructure bill last Friday (which they did), then the conservatives would vote for BBB provided they receive certain “fiscal information” from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Exactly what that information could consist of was not specified, but as of Wednesday, they are apparently not insisting that it be a full score and that they expect “there will likely be enough information available to alleviate“ their concerns. Read more