House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly expressed frustration with left-wing members of her conference in recent months, saying at one point that “‘you couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to run for speaker again,” according to a forthcoming book.The extent of Pelosi’s bitterness is laid out in “This Will Not Pass,” a tome by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns — details of which were published by Punchbowl News Friday and underscore the fragility of Democratic Party unity entering this fall’s midterm elections.Last fall, for example, Martin and Burns report that Pelosi (D-Calif.) privately blasted the Congressional Progressive Caucus for its attempts to tank the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, telling another House Democrat at one point that CPC Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) were fighting to be the “queen bee” of the party.
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