what joe manchin says he might support in two weeks when we get legislative language because we don t trust him. congressman paul and house progressives and progressive senators in the senate do not trust that sinema and manchin will vote for the larger build back better package if they surrender all their leverage and just vote for the highway bill now. what they want to have happen is have these bills pass in tandem. they want to see the senate move and pass the full reconciliation bill and then they ll pass the bipartisan highway bill. and so it s just it s hard to imagine that with all the negotiations that are happening late into the night tonight on capitol hill with brian deese and other white house staffers, with chum schumer s staff and with pelosi s staff that they re going to come to a meeting of the minds on the full scale and scope of the build back better reconciliation package and they ll get manchin and sinema to say yes to it such that
thinking saying we shouldn t interpret this letter as saying there will not be a vote here tonight. in fact, this is part of what the letter reads. it has been a day of progress in fulfilling the president s vision to build back better. thanks to so many members and staff the work is being done. discussions continue with the house, senate and white house to reach a bicameral framework agreement to build back better through a reconciliation bill. so that indicates that the house speaker is content to let this play out at least for a certain period of time tonight. and we have seen officials from the white house, senator manchin, senator sinema, senator bernie sanders come in and out of different offices on capitol hill here today clearly trying to come to some sort of agreement. but at the same time this is all playing out on the senate side, don, on the house side that group of progressives of more than 50 progressive lawmakers held a zoom call amongst their members where they continue
good evening to you. you ve been here before. good evening, don. offer some insight. we have waited all night. it s looking like a mess. no vote yet. how do you see it playing out, brian? if i had to predict, don, i think one of two things is going to happen. one, either nancy pelosi will bring to the floor brian, stand by. i m getting some information. hang on one second. i just to want triple check. this is reportable, right? that was my mask. so no vote tonight. that s what we re being told, that there will be no vote tonight. let me see if it s in my in box. i m being told by producers no vote tonight. what does this mean? in the broader sense of the term. this is not surprising. what i was about to say was one of two things was going to happen. either they would hold the vote on this bipartisan infrastructure package and it would fail on the house floor.
to getting to a framework because this is a chief complaint that you heard from someone like senator bernie sanders tonight, saying that they were negotiating this late into the night. he was worried about what this was going to look like, calling it absurd at times. he was pretty frustrated with the idea that they were going to try to settle on something tonight so they could get that agreement to get to that infrastructure vote. and so whether or not they try to vote tomorrow, it really remains to be seen, don, because i don t think this morning aides thought they would be going this late into the night to try to get to a vote and then not ultimately get to one. they kind of thought speaker pelosi would delay the vote earlier in the day. they re really leaving all of this up to her, don, because she s the one negotiates with these progressives. yes, it s president biden who is the chief person working with senator sinema, senator manchin about what this top-line number is going to lo
officials say these talks will continue tomorrow. we ll see if they get any closer to getting a framework. this is a chief complaint you heard from someone like senator bernie sanders tonight. he was worried about what this was going to look like, calling it absurd at times. he was frustrated with the idea they were going to settle on something tonight so they could get to the agreement to get to that infrastructure vote. whether or not they try to vote tomorrow remains to be seen. i don t think this morning aides thought they would be going this late into the night to get to a vote and not get to one. they thought speaker pelosi would delay the vote earlier in the day. and they re leaving all this up to her, don, because she s the one negotiating with these progressives. yes, it s president biden who is the chief person working with senator sinema, senator manchin about what this topline number is going to look like. but now they decide to come to this remains to be seen. they think t