president biden and the democrats race to try to pass their massive spending bill by next weekend. the president and senate majority leader schumer met with manchin in delaware this morning to try to continue negotiations. david spunt is live in wilmington with more. the white house is saying this was a positive breakfast meeting with senators schumer and manchin saying they are making headways to try to get some sort of deal here. president biden one week from today s going to be in glasgow scotland for a climate summit with other world leaders, wanting to bring something tangible to those world leaders saying he can get his climate priorities from the united states and mention those on a world stage. also a week from today, which happens to be halloween, that s the deadline, that democrats a self-imposed deadline to pass this package, infrastructure, social spending plan, which includes those climate
working breakfast with senate majority of leader chuck schumer and west virginia democratic senator joe manchin here at his home in wilmington, delaware, ten minutes from where i am right now. this is an effort to sell joe manchin on this plan. we know that senator chuck schumer is really lockstep with the president on some of these negotiations. but it s manchin and kyrsten sinema from arizona that the white house is trying to make sure they get on-board. manchin specifically is someone they have been talking with recently, a little bit more possibly than sinema. right now, the social spending aspect of the package originally toplined around $3.5 trillion. right now that figure is nowhere near that, now less than 2 trillion. the pay fors raising taxes on billionaires and corporations, climate priorities and child tax credits all under negotiation. here s the thing.
to deliver goods. it takes several days, in some cases 5-5 days, to unload 5-7 days to unload a ship. there s still a trucking shortage. as for the president s infrastructure and social spending bill, something else the white house is watching closely, riden optimistic about a deal at least publicly. joe manchin and kyrsten sinema continue to hold the cards here as the president has come down significantly to from his original $3.5 trillion social spending bill. the the key issues right now actively being negotiated, they include climate priorities, corporate tax hikes, also child tax credits. bottom line, do you think you will get a deal? i do think i ll get a deal. reporter: problems also continue at the southern border. a new caravan making its way knot to our border. north to our border. the president being criticized for saying he s been to the border. we cannot find any such trip in
reporter: but the next day white house press secretary jen psaki con that districted her boss contradicted her boss. that is not something under active consideration. reporter: jon, as for a deal on the infrastructure and social spending bills, another priority for this white house, the president is on the list ific about a deal. on the list inabout a deal. west virginia senator joe manchin and arizona senator zinn that continue to hold the cards. the president has come down significantly from his original $3.5 trillion top amount. the key issues continue to be negotiated; climate priorities, corporate tax hikes and child tax credits. bottom line, do you think you will get a deal? i do think i ll get a deal. reporter: problems also continue at the southern border. a new caravan making its way north to our border. the president being criticized for saying he s been today border to the border. we cannot find any such trip
and a half trillion dollar figure. key issues actively being negotiated are the climate priorities, corporate tax hikes and child tax credits. problems also continue i heard you and eric talk about it last break at the southern border, a new caravan making its way north to our border. the president is being criticized for saying that he s been to the border, we ve looked, we cannot find any such trip other than that 2008 trip to el paso where he motorcaded from texas to new mexico. jen psaki, the white house press secretary did point out that over the years president biden or senator biden, vice president biden, whatever he may have been at the time did visit several countries south of the border but as far as finding an actual border visit, we have yet to find one, the white house has yet to provide an example. alicia. alicia: okay, david spunt, thank you. eric. eric: drivers coast to coast will be digging deeper into the pockets to top off the tanks.