that is my biggest concern what is about to happen on these guys s watch. laura: the polling on this is interesting, the white house, i don t blame them for doing this, sending out memos, the people supported and voters to support an idea of bipartisan infrastructure and trump was pushing a version of this. a majority of voters are concerned about the size of the proposal, the infrastructure bill and the spending plan would run the country $4.7 trillion, 55% of voters say that too much, 64% oppose a federal tax hike to pay for this. i think we know the infrastructure bill doesn t include a tax increase, the follow-on bill which senator cassidy think is less likely to pass, i do not understand that does include a tax increase for people over 400,$000. what does this tell you with the
apart? speaker pelosi and president biden, we re all confused because they keep stepping on each other and we really don t know what in fact we re negotiating. seems to me that one thing is very clear, the $3.5 trillion is in fact fused together with the trillion plus dollars of infrastructure spending. that human infrastructure plus the actual infrastructure is a very confusing package. one thing we re not confused about is the nearly $4.7 trillion of additional spending on top of the $1.9 trillion covid package that only had 1% in in the covid package for vaccines. so we should be asking ourselves what s really in there and without clarity, you don t move forward. you know, there s a poll out this morning, it s partly online poll, abc, but it gives one indication of where americans are. it said that 5% of americans are
apart? speaker pelosi and president biden, we re all confused because they keep stepping on each other and we really don t know what in fact we re negotiating. seems to me that one thing is very clear, the $3.5 trillion is in fact fused together with the trillion plus dollars of infrastructure spending. that human infrastructure plus the actual infrastructure is a very confusing package. one thing we re not confused about is the nearly $4.7 trillion of additional spending on top of the $1.9 trillion covid package that only had 1% in in the covid package for vaccines. so we should be asking ourselves what s really in there and without clarity, you don t move forward. you know, there s a poll out this morning, it s partly online poll, abc, but it gives one indication of where americans are. it said that 5% of americans are
good. we like parties working together, bridges, roads, all that, but this $4.7 trillion package that the white house and democrats are talking about goes too far. i want to give you findings that really get to the public s collective unease. we asked a question where we said if there was that level of spending, what would concern you? here s what we got, 74% would be concerned with runaway inflation. 78% that it would be higher taxes on them personally down the line. 69% lower growth. 69% a negative impact on my family s finances. so it s not that they re against the specific provisions, but collectively you get to these numbers they get nervous. amy, jonathan lemire, we talked about there is hope for the bipartisan deal and the white house is saying it s encouraged by mitt romney yesterday saying 10, 11 republicans could be on board next week. since there is hope it gets done
what would stop from withholding funding? what would stop the president from withholding merely any part of the four $4.7 trillion annual budget subject to his personal, pl political benefit. mr. chief justice, distinguished members of the senate, i thank the senators for that very important question. certainly, what we have alleged in this case is that the president solicited a personal political benefit in exchange for an official act. solicited dirt on a political