senators manchin and sinema communicated or not always been transparently communicating with their colleagues on the house side and the senate side. when it comes to paid family leave, i ve been talking to advocates for weeks now who very much feel luke they got left out in the cold on. this it is something they felt was in until the very last moment when it was not. senator joe manchin said he wanted to see that policies help keep people family in the workforce. they still manage to fall out of this package. i will also say that last night i caught up with manchin as leaving the building. he seemed frustrated and exhausted. he didn t think reconciliation is a way to go about family paid sick and leave policy. that is something we heard from one of the key people trying to get manchin onboard with this. she was negotiating whether or not they could get anything even if it was just four weeks of
if we have them. we got open ended sort of positive thoughts about this framework from both of those lawmakers. monica, let s talk a little bit about what is actually in this package. what got left out. how final do we think this framework is from the white house this perspective? the president made clear in those remarks that he expects this to be the deal essentially he wants his own party to get hund. he laid that out in stark terms because of the dead line he s up against which he is wheels up to rome. you can set your clocks. that is seven or so hour flight is going to be a very long one. it depends on what they can accomplish on pennsylvania avenue or a short one if the answer to that is nothing and there is no vote. something that president was hoping for potential action on by the time he does land in italy tonight.
want to show you the statement that was put out today. after months of productive good faith negotiations with president biden and the white house, we made significant progress on the proposed budget reconciliation package. i look forward to getting this done, expanding economic opportunity and helping every day families get ahead. she doesn t explicitly say she would vote for it. you worked hand in hand with her on the negotiations. does she need to come out with a more explicit statement saying i am for this? i am with you? would that help seal the deal on the house side today? i don t speak for others. when i read look forward to get it done it is clear. and i believe strongly that she s behind this and so is senator manchin. we re going to get 50 and get this reconciliation package done. we have to come together as the president asked us to do and vote for that package and we ll get reconciliation done.
Top Democrats said on Sunday they are eyeing a tax on billionaires to help fund the party's multi-trillion dollar reconciliation bill, which lawmakers on Capitol Hill hope to advance this week.