if we can have that kind of support emerge, i think it will be a positive thing for our country. i have is to ask senator manchin and are you confident you ll have all 50 members of the caucus on board? dana, i don t know. i m going to work hard to achieve that. i reached out to make sure our caucus is starting out strong. i won t say anything about any colleague until they ve told me. senator mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, called judge jackson the favorite choice of the far left and dark money groups. is it true excuse me, it is true, i should say, that progressive groups like demand justice did suggest that president biden should nominate her, but what is your response to that overall line of attack? we ve seen the stark money approach used in supreme court
multiple times that $250 billion is really what s necessary for this program to even work and be effective, but here they just funded it at $150 billion. so there s going to be a lot of questions, not just on where senators sinema and manchin stand but also if they can get the rest of the caucus on board. stephanie? i want to point out just about five minutes ago, congress com tweeting we will deliver both the infrastructure and the build back better act to people across america but we cannot do that if we don t even have a bill. underscoring this idea that kind of it doesn t really matter what joe manchin says about what s in it, they want to see the details. thus far, john, does it look like funding the irs is the most significant pay in it? it does. out of the $1.9 trillion or so they can get out of revenues, beefing up the irs enforcement
we know the speakers moving the votes to thursday and by a few more days here. what role should president biden be playing here as this heads into the stretcher. these are critical pieces of legislation that s going to define the future of the country. when we are talking about investment and crumbling roads and bridges. when we are talking about investment that s going to make a huge difference for 10 or 20 or 30 years into the future. we need to make sure we are getting this done and starting to talk to the american people about. what has to happen? the full caucus on board has to have some agreement on where we are going on reconciliation.
i think the democrats would have to do something. i think for conservatives to get together with the republicans, it is not that hard. forget about reconciliation. put in the bill phase one and phase three together. that will get the freedom calculation on board caucus on board instantly. tort reform, been waiting 50 years for tort reform. brett: put it all in one bill in the house. pass it out of the house. how do you get to 60 votes in the senate? then the democrats are going to have to think. do you want to kill this? i think it would have a lot of popularity. there are people out there who have suffered from tort reform. there are doctors who are quitting because there is no tort reform. it s just one item in this. it s a very important one. ocosts about half a trillion dollars a year. we have the most expensive system in the world. 17% of g.d.p. switzerland, i think, is the next with about 10. the gap is huge. and our medicine is the best in the worlds. but it s not twice as
have to do something. i think for conservatives to get together with the republicans, it is not that hard. forget about reconciliation. put in the bill phase one and phase three together. that will get the freedom calculation on board caucus on board instantly. tort reform, been waiting 50 years for tort reform. brett: put it all in one bill in the house. pass it out of the house. how do you get to 60 votes in the senate? then the democrats are going to have to think. do you want to kill this? i think it would have a lot of popularity. there are people out there who have suffered from tort reform. there are doctors who are quitting because there is no tort reform. it s just one item in this. it s a very important one. ocosts about half a trillion dollars a year. we have the most expensive system in the world. 17% of g.d.p. switzerland, i think, is the next with about 10. the gap is huge. and our medicine is the best in the worlds. but it s not twice as good. i mean, there are pla