the senate does not have. so is this going to get done today, tomorrow, or certainly before june 5th? reporter: we re hoping before june 5. senators are trying to haggle if they can do this today or if they can do this tomorrow. there is a real desire here to not have to work the weekend, and it s probably a combination of that desire, some jet fumes, the need to get out of town, and then also an agreement on amendments that s likely to get us there. one of the things that s holding this up is people like senator lindsey graham who are unhappy about the way they see defense spending capped in the current bill. he s upset with his own party for negotiating this. here s what he had to say about this. watch. i blame myself for not being more involved and more active because in my wildest dreams, i never believed that the republican party would take the biden budget that they ve attacked for a year and celebrate it as fully funding. reporter: and look, graham is not the onl
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make good on obligations we ve already undertaken. this is not about authorizing new spending. this is about paying bills already due and owing, and i think we should just diffuse this, as i say, ticking time bomb on our economy. we re glad it didn t go off this timement that doesn t mean it won t go off sometime in the future. i referenced some things that were left on the cutting room floor. there are a number of provisions that the democrats in general would have preferred to have in, and one of my colleagues, lindsey reiser, spoke to one of the 43 million people who along with his wife will soon have to restart their student loan payments. take a listen to what he told us. we still have to pay a house off and then with all this, and you know, with inflation and rising prices of everybody trying to get one, it s becoming very unaffordable to do that, and adding another bill on top of that it just seems it s going to be impossible. this is part of the deal you just voted for, m
them told me. i didn t realize it was going to be that soon, and that abrupt, so, yeah, it s going to be a shock because now we have to allocate more of a budget now to pay those back in a timely manner. we still have to pay a house off, and then with all of this, and with inflation and rising prices and everybody trying to get one, it s becoming very unaffordable to do that, and adding another bill one op to have on top of that, it seems to be impossible. reporter: the amount that he owes and his wife, they will be paying $450 a month in student loan payments once this starts. chris, he says, you know, they have been trying to put it off so they can have the american dream, get married, buy a house, and he says right now, this kind of looks impossible for him, chris. lindsey reiser, thank you for that. the search is becoming more desperate in iowa where the number of people believed to be trapped in the building has risen from two to three. nbc s maggie vespa is live from da