The erosion of trust among many liberals and vulnerable moderates has been happening over several years, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.) said last week.

But he argued that his progressive colleagues need to understand the only reason they have a majority with which to legislate is because of hard-fought victories moderates have scored in the country’s most competitive congressional districts and so their concerns should not be dismissed.

“I think that progressives don’t trust moderates, and I keep telling the progressives, ‘Hey, how do we get to a majority?’ I mean, Republicans don’t control any liberal seats. Does anybody know a liberal seat Republicans control?” he said. “There’s no liberal seats. It’s the moderate swing areas that people like myself have that they need to worry about.”

Jayapal said her caucus’s concerns about trust were mostly focused on the Senate where they felt Manchin and Sinema were not being upfront about which policies they would support, leaving the party in an anxious limbo about what could be achieved.

“I never said anything about my House colleagues,” Jayapal said Friday. “I’ve just said that we need to have a way to verify that whatever we agree to does not get delayed or get changed [in the Senate]. The only way we know to do that is a vote, but we’re continuing to look at other possibilities that might get there.”