Home Democrats pushed ahead on Wednesday with a procedural transfer that might power a vote to extend the debt restrict ought to negotiations between President Biden and Republicans collapse, transferring regardless of indicators of progress within the bipartisan talks to advance a long-shot Plan B to avert a default.
Consultant Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democratic chief, wrote to his colleagues urging them to shortly signal a discharge petition, which might routinely power a Home vote on laws if…