The House is barreling ahead Friday with votes on Democrats’ two key domestic priorities — a $1.75 trillion social spending package and a long-stalled $550 billion infrastructure bill — after weeks of embarrassing stops and starts. After another frenetic day of dealmaking, Pelosi and her lieutenants bridged several major policy divides but were still lining up needed votes heading into a critical day.

Democrats in the House, Senate and White House have remained in lockstep for months on a strategy to pass the two pillars of President Joe Biden’s ambitious agenda, even if it’s meant bending to every whim of the evenly divided upper chamber. But the party’s House leaders have now made the calculation that the only way they can get the social spending bill to Biden’s desk is to go on their own.

“We’re at that point where we wait another week, it gets worse, not better,” said Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.). “It’s baked and it’s going to get overdone. There’s a point where you’ve got to stop talking and just come to terms with the shape it’s in.”