make deals even harder to reach. a senior biden adviser telling cnn the clock is running. we all know that. the president knows that. biden will appear on stage tonight taking questions from ohio voters on those topics and more. here in cincinnati, infrastructure is a critical issue. the bridge which crosses the ohio river on one of the busiest trucking routes has long been labeled functionally obsolete. it s unfilled promise of the obama and trump administrations. biden hopes not to fall short. i think we re on the verge of me being able to get something done. rebuilding roads and bridges. reporter: protecting voting rights by e limliminating the se infrastructure. i would hope this administration would put their weight because it is the foundation of who we are. this is what makes us america. reporter: so far biden is largely kept democrats united
covid fundamentally is neighbor to neighbor, family member to family member. there are limits to what the president can do. if you take a look across the board, young people think they won t get very sick. it s got to be family member. when you look at the minority communities, a lot of fear about the way african-americans have been treated in the past. that has to be churches. that has to be family members, neighbors. when it comes to those that live in rural communities, they live there for reason. they don t want to listen to anybody else. they want to be independent and that is going to go through organizations like the farm bureau, neighbor to neighbor again to solve that. let s not put that all on the president. on infrastructure, i hop we re going to get a deal. speaking of the bridge, the reason why p we haven t had it fixed is because the people, the legislatures in kentucky played politics and didn t want to vote. you use the bridge, you pay for it. we did in in ohio. it s wh
it s really ridiculous. i hop we re going to get infrastructure package. i think it will be good. when it comes to the three and a half trillion dollar bill out, i hope they don t try to jam that through because that will be purely partisan and i m not sure they can accomplish that. lauren, i think governor kasich raises a good point. it is complicated to get any of these agenda items through. when you look at biden agenda on issue after issue, the agenda is stuck on capitol hill. governor kasich was just talk about infrastructure and bridges. that used to be one of the the one issue that just about every member of congress could agree onto pass. efb wants bridges and roads and that kind of infrastructure in their district or state and even that is having trouble getting across the finish line. reporter: i think a really telling sign is the fact it was almost a month ago now that the president announced this
domestic agenda. nothing america is unable to do. reporter: in congress, both sides are far from together. that divide was on full display again today as senate republicans voting against the bipartisan infrastructure plan in a key test vote. who is playing raising quest about whether a deal can still be reached. it s complicated in its own right. we all want the same thing here. to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill. in order to finish the bill, we first need to start. reporter: at the six month mark of biden s presidency, the list of summer challenges facing the administration is daunting. covid cases are spiking with the delta variant. inflation is up. border crossings are rising. the taliban is take over afghanistan and the signature piece of the domestic agenda, the jobs and infrastructure plan is teetering. white house officials concede the coming weeks hold the cards to the future of the president s agenda before the midterm elections consume washington and