Working people want to see the Squad stand up to the establishment. Progressive leaders and leaders of major labor unions need to harness that desire and publicly urge that the Squad use their numerical balance & refuse to vote on the MUST PASS stimulus bill unless $15 is in it.— Kshama Sawant (@cmkshama) March 6, 2021
I'm not convinced this can work as the whole squad needs to vote it down and even if they do that I'm not convinced Pelosi can't find the extra vote. It passed originally in the house 219 to 212, for it to fail you need 4 squad members to actually vote no or you need 7 to abstain. In either scenario I'm not convinced Pelosi wouldn't make some right wing concessions and just get a couple votes from somewhere else, like one of the dems who abstained in the first vote.
I'm not convinced this can work as the whole squad needs to vote it down and even if they do that I'm not convinced Pelosi can't find the extra vote. It passed originally in the house 219 to 212, for it to fail you need 4 squad members to actually vote no or you need 7 to abstain. In either scenario I'm not convinced Pelosi wouldn't make some right wing concessions and just get a couple votes from somewhere else, like one of the dems who abstained in the first vote.