deliberations. faces up to 70 of trafficking, and transporting a minor with the intent to engage in illegal acts. democrats in the senate got som bad news last week when the parliamentarian ruled that some immigration privation should no be included in the build back better act would joe s make it into the vending bill hinges on mythological term known as the bird rule and birdbath, professional corresponding give us a birdseye view of this eccentric senate exercise. everyone on capitol hill is tripping about the byrd role. and then of course there was a byrd rule. we want to make sure what we
build to determine what fish or foul, and clips the wings of th visions they don t match for th birdbath isn t necessarily a singular event there are phone calls, e-mails, paperwork exchanges that sometimes the provisions are so controversial that the parliamentarian convenes to present their arguments as though in a court of law. one at the mark in tinges discussion circled around a provision in the affordable car act where we actually had written legal style a brief spread. they would survive the birdbath are called bird droppings in is the parliamentarian rules against you, that ruffles senate feathers spread. it s remarkable, they have short memories, and those who feel slighted never forget. what survives the bad beth has grown so intense government
and the debt ceiling will be done, does that free back some space to try to get the build back better agenda done before christmas? certainly, if you re chuck schumer he would be holding out for a christmas miracle at this point. he was the only one pushing for trying to find a better way forward for the build back better act before the end of the year. the cbo in the senate is going to come out but we still don t have word on where the parliamentarian is going to end up with the so-called birdbath. but there s a lot of things procedurally that need to happen in the next couple of weeks with the passage of this bill. i think the bigger issue for senator schumer and joe manchin and others who have thrown water on this for the end of the year. i think it would truly be a christmas miracle for chuck schumer for that to get done in the next couple of weeks but we re watching it quickly.
already passed in their version of this bill, which is temporary protections from deportation and some work help for undocumented immigrants. that would affect roughly 6.5 million undocumented immigrants in this country, if it were to be included. but what advocates are saying is that regardless of the way the parliamentarian rules on this, this might be, in their words, the formal birdbath, the formal process to move forward, but it s not, in their words, the final part of this. of course for democrats in the house, they knew that immigration was likely one of the things that could change or even fall out of this legislation once it got to the senate, and it s one in a string of things that we re watching to see how it changes now that it s in the hands of the senate. immigration, one of them. the other of them, paid leave. that s something that senator joe manchin has said, he doesn t want to do through this partisan reconciliation process. instead, he wants to do that as a stand-alo
hearing excuse me, burning books here. so. we are getting some. bird and privilege i think most is getting privilege. because privilege is to the bill. point is you have to take it out. might be sure that what we send is not burnable or birdbath or privilege scrub. watch your sides this weekend in case they are engaged in. sean: god help this country and the world. i think nancy may have also been in washington a bit too long. how is it possible that we now have two of the most powerful people in washington both being