The US House of Representatives will cut short its previously scheduled seven-week summer recess to take up a Democrat-backed budget resolution to kick-start the process for the $3.5 trillion spending plan.

According to a report by NBC News, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday that the House could cut its recess short and return in roughly two weeks to take up the sweeping infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion safety net.

“For your scheduling purposes, assuming that the Senate does, in fact, complete work on a budget resolution, the House will return to session on the evening of August 23 to consider the budget resolution and will remain in session until our business for the week is concluded,” Hoyer was quoted by multiple media reports as saying in a statement to colleagues.

The scheduled date of the return for the House was September 20

The Senate passed the infrastructure package with a vote tally of 69 to 30 on Tuesday, with 19 Republicans joining all Democrats. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has signaled that the House will not take up the bill until the Senate passes the multitrillion-dollar package of safety net measures.

“The House will continue to work with the Senate to ensure that our priorities For The People are included in the final infrastructure and reconciliation packages, in a way that is resilient and will Build Back Better,” she said in a statement.

The two packages, the Infrastructure plan and the budget plan, are pivotal to President Joe Biden’s top domestic policy ambitions and will likely shape the outcome of the progressive turn that the Democrats are planning towards.

Expectedly, many of the proposals would be financed by raising taxes on the wealthy and large corporations while sparing people earning under $400,000 annually, as the President has often pledged. 

Although party leaders say the measure will be fully paid for, the budget resolution does not require that, instead, giving Congress’ tax-writing committees unspecified license to raise money that a summary calls “substantial,” according to AP inputs.