Pelosi: Biden spending plan, infrastructure deal and funding ‘must pass’ next week

• Speaker sends letter to party at mercy of warring factions
• One reporter observes: ‘Well, this is raising the stakes’

In a letter to Democrats on Saturday the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, set her sights high, saying Joe Biden’s $3.5tn spending package, a bipartisan infrastructure deal worth $1tn and a measure to expand government funding “must pass” next week.

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