'Squad' Dems hit back as moderates hold $3.5T spending plan hostage for infrastructure vote

House "Squad" Democrats hit back Friday at their moderate colleagues after nine of them said they will not vote to advance their party's $3.5 trillion budget resolution until the bipartisan infrastructure bill is signed into law.

"Stop calling conservatives ‘moderates,’" Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., tweeted Friday morning.  The letter from the moderates Friday followed a similar one earlier this week from members of the House Progressive Caucus, but with an opposite demand. The progressives stated that they won't vote for the infrastructure bill until the Senate produces a reconciliation bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has taken that same stance.