collosous, that took the parts are more powerful than the sum. the parts are popular. the sum is not. the big debate over whether it s $3.5 trillion or $1.7 trillion leaves people cold. exactly. and the inability to explain what is actually in it, and what would touch people s lives has hurt democrats here. i think that was how biden thought he would be spending his summer, but instead he was fighting the virus and dealing with afghanistan and issues that took him away from this. the danger of us as democrats falling between the two chairs are on the one hand biden holds out the promise, i can bring people together and get stuff done. that is the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, hard infrastructure. so that s the part of biden that some like. that bill hasn t gotten passed. the other part of biden, maybe
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family. a family divided. at issue, the timing of a vote on the already-hammered-out bipartisan bill on so-called hard infrastructure. and the contents and price tag of a larger bill on so-called human infrastructure. childcare, affordable housing, healthcare, and climate change, which would be passed with only democratic support by reconciliation. two sessions today. one for progressives in the house who won t vote for the first without the second. the other, for moderates, some of whom aren t even sure about the second at all. just moments ago, progressive leader congresswoman pramila jayapal reiterated her faction s position and west virginia senator joe manchin restated his resistance to quick action on the reconciliation bill and to keep provisions in it. so, the impasse is still there even if both sides are using words like constructive and even productive to describe the talks. perspective now from cnn contributor, everan osnos, joe biden biographer and author of wildland. als
trying to show that bipartisanship and that washington can work. that s important for both parties as they try to get a political message out there ahead of the midterms, and clearly there s reasons for both parties to go along with this bipartisan, quote, unquote, hard infrastructure piece. where it does come back to normal partisan lines though is in what they do next, which is moving on to the budget reconciliation bill, the $3.5 trillion of soft infrastructure or human infrastructure. a lot of the democratic policy priorities that we heard talked about as far back as the presidential campaign, things like universal pre-k, child care, paid leave, a lot of the top priorities including combating climate change is important to activist that really have kept the pressure on and of course important to democrats here. it does shake out when you get into how this translates in the house. we have seen moderate democrats already voicing they would like to see a vote in the house on