mo4ch:>Democrats take over House divided on progressive agenda | Mo4ch News
The House of Representatives has a new Democrat majority, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not leading a united front. The party’s new progressive wing is challenging the establishment on spending measures and climate action.As the incoming class of 2018 make their way to Capitol Hill, the first order of business will be a vote on a package of rules to govern the 116th Congress. Already, some of the party’s more progressive upstarts have registered their displeasure.Pelosi’s rule package includes a provision known as “Pay As You Go,” or PAYGO. This measure would require any new government spending to be offset by cuts elsewhere, or increases in revenue through tax hikes. Tweeting on Wednesday night, incoming Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) said that they would vote against Pelosi’s rules package as long as PAYGO was included.“PAYGO isn’t only bad economics,” Cortez wrote, “it’s also a dark political maneuver designed to hamstring progr…