WASHINGTON, D.C.: Brushing past moderates, House Democratic leaders tried to muscle President Joe Biden's multitrillion-dollar budget blueprint over a key hurdle on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) night, hoping to shelve for now an intraparty showdown that risks upending their domestic infrastructure agenda.

Tensions rose as lawmakers returned for the evening session and a band of moderate lawmakers threatened to withhold their votes for the $3.5-trillion plan. They were demanding the House first approve a $1-trillion package of road, power grid, broadband and other infrastructure projects that's already passed the Senate.