near enough. progressive democrats say they won t vote for that, unless the $3.5 trillion build back better agenda bill, that s the social welfare state that s expanded child care, and all the climate stuff, unless that moves forward in tandem with the bipartisan bill. the problem, there are two senate democrats who are holding out on that reconciliation bill. democratic senator kyrsten sinema of arizona. she has been an irritant in the process, i think you can say, saying she will not agree to the $3.5 trillion spending bill with the climate provisions. she met with white house officials three times yesterday alone, and then again today. afterwards, reporters tried to pin her down on her position on the two bills. here s how that went. reporter: progressives that are frustrated that they don t know where you are. in the senate. reporter: there are progressives in the senate that don t know where you are either. i m like clearly right in
the house would first finish the reconciliation bill, and then once that s voted on, then we would pass the bipartisan bill. that was the position that the progressive caucus took almost 3 1/2 months ago, because many of our members if they just had to vote on the bipartisan bill don t think it was a very good bill. it was negotiated by a small group of members. we were never consulted on it, we don t think it does enough, and there are a lot of people who don t want to vote for it, and because we re all adults and play on the team of the democratic party, we said every one of our progressive members would vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill as long as they stuck to the promise and commitment of passing the reconciliation bill first, the build back better act first, and then suddenly out of nowhere, chris, in comes a few people, 4% of all of the democrats in the house and the senate and they said, we re not going to stick to the original agreement. we re just going to pass the
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