transportation. so if we don t have the policy in the bipartisan bill, that is going to be a problem because you can t put policy as you know into the reconciliation bill. it is very i hope that was clear. but our focus has been on the reconciliation bill and i want to say, progressives are thrilled that our top five priorities have ended up in the reconciliation bill, of course, we would like the numbers to be a little higher in a few of the categories, so that s what we re working on right now. but let s be clear that the reconciliation bill is a massive down payment and victory for progressives and we have to pass that. okay. all right. so, the framework the bill we re about to see tomorrow is the bipartisan the bipartisan legislation which is democrats and republicans and it is being done this way because it will get the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. the reconciliation bill is one that is being done with
billion is new spending, and frankly, jonathan, that s a big deal. there is also pieces that we have to do in this bipartisan bill. we can t just move them over into the democrats only reconciliation bill that we will also have to take up and pass before we can leave for august recess. and then a nice segue into what i was going to ask you next, something you re involved in, it is a bill that you are supporting and it is one on emissions tax bill, the plan calls for federal agencies to calculate the environmental cost incurred from complying with any federal state, regional or local law regulation, policy or program designed to reduce emissions. another complication is that while the poorest countries would be exempt from paying the tariff, it would be up to u.s. agencies to determine whether trading partners are enforcing climate change laws so on and so forth. are you concerned that your bill
democrats only, that because of reconciliation it only needs to pass by a simple majority. i get that whole technical lesson because my question to you, congresswoman, is how confident are you that the reconciliation bill will actually pass out of the senate? because even within the democratic caucus, all y all are not in agreement on the senate side, i mean. well, i think absolutely the reconciliation bill will pass. the only reason that we have been, you know, essentially allowing this bipartisan drama to go on for months is because we understand there are a few senators who want to have a bipartisan bill. fine. but i am talking, jonathan, about the urgency of what we re going to accomplish in the reconciliation bill. i just looked at numbers this morning that said one in three americans have less in savings than they did prepandemic. and you know 40% of americans didn t even have 400 bucks in their bank account. we are going to see 3.6 million
civilian climate accord i m excited about. it is a bold and robust package of climate provisions. there is also, jonathan, important provisions about climate in this bipartisan infrastructure bill. big investments in resiliency, in modernizing our electric grid, and in demonstrating new clean energy technologies. so we re going to make significant progress in combatting climate in both bills this month. senator coons, thank you for the clarification on your emissions tax bill. the climate corps being also part of that, but also i think a lot of progressives wonder whether climate issues at all are going to be in this bipartisan bill you have just told us that they are there and so i m sure they will be thrilled to hear that. senator chris coons of delaware, thank you for coming back to the sunday show. thank you, jonathan. joining me now is democratic congresswoman jayapal of washington, chair of the house