House delays vote on Biden's $1.75 trillion bill to after hours-long speech
The vote on U.S. President Joe Biden's $1.75 trillion social spending bill has been delayed until Friday in the House of Representatives, after Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy gave an hours-long, circuitous speech.
The vote was originally scheduled for Thursday evening after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan arbiter, released a cost assessment of the bill, which several moderate Democrats said they needed before they would vote.
But the vote was delayed until 8 a.m. (1300 GMT) on Friday after McCarthy spoke - and often seemed to stray - from a thick binder of prepared remarks for more than four hours, at times shouting over Democrats in the House who were openly dismissive of his obstruction.
Democrats in the House were attempting to advance Biden's $1.75 trillion domestic investment bill, despite the CBO's finding that it would add to the deficit.
Reference: Reuters
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