Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that has no plans to shut down, even if Washington does.

I'm Jonathan Lemire on this Tuesday, September 28th. We'll start with the news.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has changed course, telling Democrats that they will vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill before reconciliation is done.

In a Democratic caucus meeting last night, Pelosi announced the change of plans.

She originally had promised to link the two bills together, refusing to schedule a vote on the

Senate passed infrastructure bill until reconciliation was ready as well.

According to a senior Democratic aide, Speaker Pelosi blamed the reversal on the Senate.

Quote, I told all of you that we wouldn't go on to the bipartisan infrastructure bill

until we had the reconciliation bill passed by the Senate.

We were right on schedule to do all of that until 10 days ago, a week ago,

when I heard the news that this number had to come down.

It all changed, so our approach had to

change. It isn't about diminishing the importance of the reconciliation. Politico reports,

the Speaker spoke with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and President Joe Biden before the

meeting. They are reportedly hoping the President will publicly pressure members of Congress

to vote for the infrastructure bill. Speaker Pelosi is acknowledging she is still unsure what the final number will be for reconciliation.

Key moderate senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kirsten Cinema of Arizona have both publicly

said they would not support the bill at its current price tag.

Progressives have said they would vote against the infrastructure bill if it were put up first.

That vote is expected this Thursday.

Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are making good on their promise not to raise the debt ceiling,

even if it leads to a government shutdown.

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