White House to Democrats: Get ready to go it alone on infrastructure | TheHill

White House officials told House Democrats Tuesday to get ready to go it alone on infrastructure if bipartisan talks founder, setting the stage for party leaders to tap an obscure budget procedure to move President BidenJoe BidenFormer Rep. Rohrabacher says he took part in Jan. 6 march to Capitol but did not storm building Saudis picked up drugs in Cairo used to kill Khashoggi: report Biden looking to build momentum for Putin meeting MORE's top domestic priority without Republican support.Huddling in person in the Capitol for the first time since the COVID-19 crisis hit, members of the House Democratic Caucus were briefed by Steve RicchettiSteve RicchettiThe Hill's Morning Report - Biden-Putin meeting to dominate the week The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Facebook - Bipartisan group reaches infrastructure deal; many questions remain Al Gore lobbied Biden to not scale back climate plans in infrastructure deal MORE, a top adviser to Biden, and Shalanda Young, the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, who said they would give Senate negotiators seven to 10 days to reach a bipartisan agreement, according to Democrats in the meeting.If no deal is reached in that time, the officials said, Democrats will gauge the progress of those talks and charge ahead with a partisan package if need be.“We certainly have a foundation to build on top of our jobs plan in its really complete or more complete form, and we'll see where we're going to go after a week or 10 days more dialogue and negotiation,” Ricchetti said, according to a source familiar with his remarks.A number of Democrats emerging from the meeting, though, had a different interpretation, suggesting the seven-to-10-day window was a hard deadline."They're giving it a week or 10 days more and that's about it," Rep. John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthOn The Money: House Democrats line up .5T in spending without budget | GOP takes aim at IRS | House Democrat mulls wealth tax House Democrats to kick off .5 trillion spending process without budget UK appeals to Congress in push for trade deal MORE (D-Ky.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, said afterwards.