turning to the politics lead now, president biden is applauding recent progress on the pandemic, downplaying the fact that the u.s. didn t meet his goal of vaccinating 70% of all adults by july 4th. the u.s. was at 67% of adults with at least a single dose on the 4th. tomorrow the focus turns to getting that number even higher. cnn s bill mattingly has more from the white house. reporter: for the white house, on the heels of its first major in-person s vent. my fellow americans, it s the most patriotic thing you can do. please, if you haven t gotten vaccinated, do it. do it now. reporter: palpable concern about an increasingly aggressive delta variant, with millions of americans still resistant to the most effective weapon to contain its spread, vaccination. if you look at the number of deaths, about 99.2% of them are
i hope miss mattingly expects you for a late dinner. to phil s point, the president tweeted funding bill, then deleted it. then he said he s considering the funding bill, looking it over with the team at the white house. it s page 33 is one of the issues for the president which it says, it talks about, number one, the number for barrier spending is way below what the president canted. two, it talks on page 33 the money can only go to the existing, structures like the existing structure. we have seen the trump prototypes. the law says no. whatever new things you build have to copy what is already on the border. that s not what the president wants. no, it is clearly not for his wall. none of this money is for the wall he asked for. that language has been in appropriations bills. that s what got him angry and led him to shut down the government at the end of last
bill mattingly is live on capitol hill. it s interesting how the senator put it. the professionals say is different than what the president says. reporter: look, what you have seen publicly and what i have been told privately from republican senators is trying to message it. she is referring to when they receive private briefings from staff and department of homeland security. you are hearing senator richard shelby, the top republican negotiator here talking about how this serves as a down payment. this is a broader concept. multiple senators saying the president wants to act on his own, go ahead, do it. it s part of the process. what you are hearing is a message directly to the president, this is part of the process, it s a win, at least in the near term and gives you space to do more afterwards. the reason why they are doing that, you played the sound in the beginning of the show.
square one on immigration after months negotiations. senators failed to advance proposal to resolve the future of millions undocumented immigrants, so-called dreamers. the vote on a bipartisan proposal would have prepared pathway to citizenship with 25 billion dollars in border security. that was voted down 54-45. bill mattingly is here live. what happened? as it stands, there s no legislative future or plan to address the daca issue, not one with a clear pathway. working for weeks behind the scenes, trying to address the issue, what the president wanted and press the issue where republicans are and democrats are, obviously, strongly held feelings on this. that failed, the senate is voting on a legislative version.
engage in negotiations over the weekend. the great deal making president sat on the sidelines. moments ago the white house responded slandering senator schumer right back. we are pleased to see senator schumer accepted the deal that president trump put on the table from the beginning which is responsibly to fund the government and debate the government on a separate issue. lets start at capitol hill, our bill mattingly is there. a, when should we expect those votes and b, what did the democrats get out of this. first question first, we are expecting the senate to move maybe a half hour or longer, they are dealing with some technical issues right now, nothing problematic for the bill. republicans clearly they are going to support this. that s all they need moving forward. later this afternoon and the