increases across the country change and new data emerge. we re also keeping a close eye on capitol hill where the house is debating, you see kevin mccarthy there, get ready to hold a historic vote on president biden s $1.9 trillion covid relief package, a monumental piece of legislation that offers aid to almost every part of life right now. $1400 checks to individuals, unemployment boost, child tax credit, funding for schools. joining me now for the state of play on where things stand there, manu raju is on the hill joining us from the white house and director david chalian is joining us as well. manu, walk us through what is about to happen in the house. we do expect final passage to occur late in the 12:00 hour in the east, 12:45 or so is when we expect that vote to begin. republicans have tried to delay, specifically one republican, marjorie taylor greene tried to delay the vote by forcing a motion to adjourn the house. that was rejected. a lot of republican colleagues
we have , he said, to at least anticipate the possibility the bill could be even higher next year . and that, he suggested, was going to be very difficult. would you agree? and is there a limit to what you think america should.? no, i don t think it s difficult. i think it s part of american foreign policy, it s baked in, and i would say this as one who stood outside the brandenburg gates within days of the collapse of the soviet union, and having walked back and forth through checkpoint charlie, it was a moment of great celebration in the world. all of what we had believed since the russian revolution of 1916 had been put to pasture and i think that when you look back at that triumphal moment, democrats and republicans were of one mind as it related to, at that time, soviet and now russian aggression and, incidentally, nato worked then and nato works now. all right. let s bring it to domestic us politics and the melodramas that the world has been watching in a courtroom in new yo
representative ed case, he said, how much bigger is this bill for ukraine going to get? we have , he said, to at least anticipate the possibility the bill could be even higher next year . and that, he suggested, was going to be very difficult. would you agree? and is there a limit to what you think america should.? no, i don t think it s difficult. i think it s part of american foreign policy, it s baked in, and i would say this as one who stood outside the brandenburg gates within days of the collapse of the soviet union, and having walked back and forth through checkpoint charlie, it was a moment of great celebration in the world. all of what we had believed since the russian revolution of 1916 had been put to pasture and i think that when you look back at that triumphal moment, democrats and republicans were of one mind as it related to, at that time, soviet and now russian aggression and, incidentally, nato worked then and nato works now. all right. let s bring it to domesti