house side, on the senate side, and in some cases within the parties. you hear it a little bit with the anti-trump republicans and then with the sort of har hfhar pro-trump republicans. but really between the two parties, you hear an animosity, a distrust, an edge that i personally did not pick up on in years past. sahil, before we go, i want to bring you in on what we re hearing today from senator sinema, how is that going to complicate all of this moving forward? well, senator sinema has said she opposes the $3.5 trillion price tag for the democrats big reconciliation package. she has not elaborated. she s not identified policy issues that are being considered that she opposes. she s just said she doesn t want that $3.5 trillion price tag. in theory, $3.4 trillion could work for her. this is going to be an issue, a debate, particularly facing pushback from progressives including alexandria ocasio-cortez, who i spoke to
and a half trillion is too much. in theory, 3.4 trillion could be viable for her. so she s not trying to blow it up altogether, that said, the fact is progressives but see it as they want to fix it to ten trillion, some progressives i spoke to in including probe maya jayapal and others are not happy that she is objecting the 3.5 trillion. aoc accused cinema of trying to nuke this entire process, including the reconciliation bill, which are tied together in the house. these have to come out around the same time in order for speaker pelosi to consider either because the house progressives have threatened to blow up the bipartisan bill unless they get it and speaker nancy pelosi has made it clear, she said that she wants them together. nbc sahil kapur thank you for being with us. i am jonathan kaye part, you can catch us on a special
trillion is too much. in theory $3.4 trillion could be viable for her. so she is not necessarily trying to blow it up all together. they wanted $6 trillion to $10 thrillon, and some progressives i spoke to including jayapal and alexandria ocasio-cortez of new york are not happy with the fact she is objecting to $3.5 trillion. aoc accused sinema of trying to nuke the entire process, including the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation bill which, by the way, are tied together in the house. these have to come up around the same time in order for speaker pelosi to consider either because the house progressives have threatened to blow up the bipartisan deal unless they get president biden s other priorities, jonathan. and house speaker nancy pelosi made it clear she wants both together. nbc s sahil kapoor. i m jonathan capehart. you can catch me tomorrow on a special edition of the saturday
will be break through cases, even vaccines that are incredibly effective are not full proof. convening a cabinet meeting today. i want to give a brief progress report. stalled vaccination efforts were at the top of the agenda. virtually all of the covid deaths and hospitalizations are from unvaccinated people. the administration argues recovery from covid and recovery from an economic downturn are intertwined. i think we can turn this great movement into economic boom for some time to come. but republicans don t think the government needs to be still involved. the economy does not need this tax and spending spree. it s lifting on its owns a we come out of this. $3.4 trillion for a fancy democratic wish list. it really does seem to be bernie s effort to socialism. it s his manifesto. it is the ultimate liberal wish
americans. we have heard figures like every family would get at least a thousand dollars. 1200 bucks. there is no money in this for those families there will be no individual checks. i heard that apparently josh hawley your colleague from missouri called the president and said hey you have got to veto that unless there are checks going to go out to the people who are hurting. where do you come down on this? well, steve, first, i want to say it s a real strategy that nancy pelosi was so cynical that she blockaded any new coronavirus relief for the last four months. she insisted for months before the election that she wouldn t come down a penny from her $3.4 trillion bill and just last week she said that she is ready to compromise. why? because she said we have a new president. so she revealed what she said she had been doing all long which is holding american workers and families hostage to the election because she did not want donald trump to get any credit for an improoflg economy o