to be some kind of respite from the pressures of capitol hill, last night there was an interruption in that respite, at least for some. during the game a group of fairly cheerful but determined protesters dropped these banners that very much reminded the baseball players of their day jobs. the signs read reconciliation first. hold the line. meaning pass the reconciliation bill. pass the president s budget first. hold the line. don t give in. also, there was this one we showed you, our lives are not a game. pass $3.5 trillion. that is for the $3.5 trillion build back better plan. the reconciliation bill. president biden s budget bill. there is also one other banner that was perhaps a little less cheery. at the very top of the screen there, it said, democrats, don t eff this up. all of those messages aimed at
hill, last night there was an night there was an interruption in that interruption in that respite, respite. at least for some [laughs] at least. during the game for some, during the a group of game, fairly cheerful some very chilly but determines protesters role but determined protesters drop, dropped these banners. these banners. that very that very much much reminded the reminded the baseball players of their day jobs. baseball players of their day jobs. signs read, that way like you just saw, reconciliation first, hold the line. meaning pass the reconciliation bill, passed the presidents budget first. hold the line don t give. also, there s this one that we showed you, our lives are not a game. past 3.5 trillion. that s for the 3.5 trillion dollar build back better plan. the reconciliation bill, president biden s budget bill. there s also one other banner that was perhaps a little less cheery, at the very top of the screen, democrats don t at this up. all those messages, aimed at d
that very much reminded the baseball players of their tay jobs. the signs read reconciliation first. hold the line. meaning pass the reconciliation bill. pass the president s budget first. hold the line. don t give in. also, there was this one we showed you our lives are not a game. pass 3.5 trillion. that is for the $3.5 trillion build back better plan. the reconciliation bill. president biden s budget bill. there is also one other banner that was perhaps a little less cheery. at the very top of the screen there it said, democrats don t f this up. all of those messages aimed at democrats last night ahead of the pivotal vote or votes there scheduled to take today. the really pivotal one we are waiting for them to take this hour. house speaker nancy pelosi has said she is holding a vote today on the small, bipartisan roads and bridges bill that has already passed the senate.
insisted on carving off this small piece of roads and bridges into a separate bipartisan bill, the white house and the rest of the democratic caucus on capitol hill said, you know, okay, we ll make you a deal, we will back this small bipartisan bill that you want as your little science experiment we ll back that as long as we also get to pass the rest of the president s economic agenda too. that said, that s how we would like to do it. if any of this is going to pass because the democratic majorities in the house and senate is so small, getting any of this done is going to require all of this to get done, and democrats and republicans agreeing to do this together that s the deal until the last few weeks, tiny amount of democrats in the house started saying, why don t we pass the little one, the bipartisan roads and bridges bill, and then we ll get to the president s agenda, the bulk of it later maybe if we feel like it, sometime down the road well, that was the vote that was
it actually failed on the floor. they got it all the way to a floor vote before they realized, oh, geez, we didn t actually do it right the chaos in the house was so bad that the first republican speaker after nancy pelosi, john boehner, he just gave up he quit. the next republican speaker, however, was no nancy pelosi either under the next speaker, paul ryan, that farm bill that hadn t failed a house vote in 40 years until 2013, it failed again. and it was a surprise again. remember also just two months into donald trump s presidency, republicans had to pull their own bill to kill obamacare this is a bill they had been talking about and promising for years. speaker paul ryan had to go to the white house personally with his proverbial tail between his legs to tell president trump that they hadn t actually been able to put together the votes the votes just weren t there when they thought they were going to be there. they got it all the way to the floor, and whoops, we dropped it, we don