House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on April 15 that she hopes some Republicans will back President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan but, if not, Democrats are ready to go it alone through the reconciliation process to push through another major piece of legislation. Pelosi began her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill by talking about the American Rescue Plan, the $2 trillion pandemic relief package that drew zero Republican backing and which Democrats ended up approving via budget reconciliation, a process that had allowed them to sidestep the filibuster in the 50-50 split Senate. “About 160 million Americans have received their checks from this legislation,” she said. “Those checks are part of nearly a trillion dollars in the pockets of the American workers. “We said our purpose in the plan was vaccines in the arm, money in the pocket, children safely in school, workers safely back at work—and that is …