been saying on tv, i said it to him directly, he thanked me for this it s the president s agenda. it s the agenda that joe biden ran on, that democrats ran on, and he is at the center of that. he is working really hard to get us to resolution. do you believe that senator manchin wants to pass the build back better act? do you see at the very top of your remarks there that you believe both these things will pass. if he doesn t want build back better to pass, it won t pass. do you believe he wants a bill and it s just a matter of finding out what it is exactly that he can say yes. . there are dimpss some of them have been reported in the farpz. there are differences one of
katherine lucy, white house reporter. daniel strauss, senior little correspondent and democratic strategist sochi hinojosa. i wish i could have seen your face when i was reading that quote from senator sinema. your response? i think that democrats understand they have to pass the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation, the larger budget bill. what s happening with progressives is they re increasingly frustrated by these two senators who have held up democrats agenda time after time and i m proud of pramila jayapal and other progressive members of congress who are fighting back because this is what democrats ran on. they know they need to deliver this ahead of 2022, and they are finally taking control of the party and of the agenda to finally deliver for the american people. katherine, i want to talk about the president s role in all this because you have politico reporting that senior democrats thought president biden went to the hill last night to support pelosi s push to uni
that the ten house democrats were trying to use as leverage against nancy pelosi. it seemed, and by the way, they seemed reasonable about being able to compromise, and so, you re now moving forward, is it fair to say that the biden infrastructure bills are on track now in the house of representatives? well today we took, we moved forward three key priorities. these are parties that house democrats ran on, the president biden ran on, and those parties were to protect voting rights, to repair our infrastructure and to strengthen our economy so we can compete globally and today s vote move all of these things forward. speaker pelosi has been clear from the beginning that we were gonna deliver president biden s job plan and his families plan together. because we understand that those things are connected, and what today s vote did was set that process up just as we had
i have to say i didn t feel a lot of suspense in the maneuver that the ten house democrats were trying to use as leverage against nancy pelosi. by the way, they seemed kind of reasonable about being willing to compromise. they used ultimatum language but also compromise language at the same time, so you are now moving forward. is it fair to say that the biden infrastructure bills are on track now in the house of representatives? well, today we moved forward three key priorities. these are priorities that house democrats ran on, that president biden ran on. and those priorities were to protect voting rights, to repair our infrastructure and to strengthen our economies so it can compete globally. today s vote moved all three forward. speaker pelosi has been clear from the beginning we would deliver president biden s jobs plan and his family plan together because we understand those things are connected and
remade from the bottom by social movements. i want to give credit to people out there who have been clicktavists. this party is responding to social moments in a beautiful way. on the health care issue, terry, in addition to what you said. gloria said when we were watching the debate virtually no mention of pre-existing conditions. right. that was the thing that democrats ran on yeah. in the last fall, and that s one of the that s the main reason why many of these democrats right. this was the key vulnerability for republicans and you didn t hear anybody hammering it tonight. you have a president of the united states who is suing right now. in court right now. to end those protections. and that was a missed opportunity. don t forget what president obama said. the entire battle for the aca, if you like your health care plan, you get to keep it. now you don t. well, that s going to be the issue. we got to that s what you were saying. you, democrats, ha