speaker says this. no bill is everything. we cannot miss this opportunity. let s get straight up to cnn s manu raju on capitol hill, that from the house side and the speaker. earlier today you talked to a key senator in all of this, and he didn t seem all that pleased. yeah. bernie sanders who is budget committee chairman and represents viewpoint of the left, pushing back at the moderates in his own caucus. kyrsten sinema and joe manchin over two key issues emerging as major sticking points. allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices, something that senator sinema along with house moderates have resisted and expanding medicare to include dental, vision and hearing. joe manchin said that would be fiscally irresponsible to include in the bill and moments ago bernie sanders made it clear both need to be in the final package. so to my mind any serious reconciliation bill must include real medical negotiations with the pharmaceutical industry to lower the cost of prescription
fund unimore than it is, that s the reason that you saw a very angry bernie sanders talking to manu rajus, earlier. he came up short two times and got millions of votes in two campaigns, campaigning on those very issues. he thinks he has a mandate. we re not there yet. i keep thinking we re in the red zone using a football met afoyer. coming up, decision day. the fda advisory panel is meeting right now and votes today on authorizing pfizer s vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. plus, take a look here. thousands of new york city workers protest the city s vaccine man day. friday is the deadline. be vaccinated or go without pay. (phone beep) (music quieter) (phone clicks)
well, her district is a lot more liberal than joe marnazin s in west virginia or kyrsten sinema in arizona. they have a basic framework that includes universal pre-k, affordable housing funds and obamacare extensions. now a clean electricity program is put out. they will have a climate package. free community college appears to be gone from this. medicare coverage for dental appears to be gone one of the reasons that bernie sanders, may be a voucher program until there. is lost in this the idea that if you add up the first covid bill and the bipartisan one, let s say it s 12k4r5r.5 trillion to 1.75 trillion that s still a lot of democratic agenda that gets lost in the idea that the two sides are fighting with each other. and the administration might have misplayed their hand a little bit. remember, biden came in and everyone was talking about a narrative that the administration themselves helped foster. he would be the next fdr.
answer still is no, and the reason is because. trust deficit, particularly among many progressives who just don t believe that a framework is enough of enough to give them to make sure that what they at least what they want what they wanted is half of it is not going to be there, but at least what they are being told they will get is really in there. and that trust deficit from ilhan omar from politico today. progressives are troubled and deeply concerned with the cuts we re seeing report. they are saying their votes need to be earned and support for a deal that does not adequately fund their priorities is not guaranteed so you have look, it s only three votes nancy pelosi can lose. can t lose any in the senate. can only lose three in the house f.bernie sanders sun happy, the one way to get ilhan omar is if bernie sanders goes over to house progressives saying this is the best we can get and if he s unhappy and progressives want to seat final text, we re not close enough yet.
he ll be engaged but when negotiations started stalling out. we saw urgency from the white house. the president invited lawmakers over. there s a momentum and now that they are on the vernal of the dole there s still some major unresolved issues here and what role can the president now play? can he bring back that same momentum and sense of urgency that we saw last week to close this deal out? and just adding real quick, the notion in if you are bernie sanders initially pushing the $7 trillion that s pie in the skies, let s be honest and the notion of not expanding medicare to include hearing for seniors, to include dental, to include vision, the notion that you will not have something in there that al lourts for negotiating the price of prescription drugs, which is wildly popular, but because joe manchin is saying it is just too expensive right now. it will cost too much and it will deplete the medicare trust