Pelosi warns the House members will NOT leave for Thanksgiving until Build Back ...

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is using an age-old pressure tactic as she tries to amass the votes to to pass President Biden's Build Back Better plan – saying lawmakers won't be flying home for the Thanksgiving holiday until they vote on it.

Pelosi's efforts to bring the $1.75 trillion measure up for a vote have been repeatedly stalled – although she finally won House passage of Biden's $1.1 trillion infrastructure package before a different break, a week-long Veterans' Day recess.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told colleagues the Build Back Better plan is set to come up on Wednesday, with a vote possible Thursday, Friday or Saturday. 

Pelosi told fellow Democrats the House won't go home until the bill is passed, CNN reported.