Key Points

  • Afghanistan policy takes center stage while Congress must deal with budget and infrastructure.
  • House returns from August break for short session to unlock Budget Reconciliation process by passing the Senate approved $3.5T Budget Resolution.
  • 9 moderate Democrats threaten to block action if Speaker doesn’t change course and allow a vote on passing the $1T Senate approved bipartisan infrastructure bill. Pelosi sticking to her position of no vote on infrastructure until Senate passes Budget Reconciliation Bill.  Week of high stakes votes.
  • Fed Chair Powell’s term ends early next year as President Biden must make tough choice to re-nominate or put forward a new candidate for Chair.


The House has been in recess for their traditional August break, but after the Senate passed a Budget Resolution and the bipartisan infrastructure package it placed pressure on Speaker Pelosi to bring back the House; however, it is lining up to be a week full of tension and a high wire act by the Speaker.

First, since the Senate passed the bills President Biden has dramatically removed US troops from Afghanistan and the world has witnessed the lightning speed by which the Taliban took over the country. While the House has big issues to consider there will obviously be ...

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