to me, it would suggest a lack of urgency for things they might need would assume everybody knows it s happening. many states decided to spend this money on things that have nothing to do with covid bet on projects they have wanted. the irony of that is we are going to this whole infrastructure battle right now. some of the mayors went right t the idea that he needs to fix roads. that s not what the american rescue plan was about, it was about covid and coming out of the pandemic. get one if you could take that money and say to the progressives on the hill, we artie did this and maybe add that to the infrastructure anyway. i see a compromise brewing. i don t think will do it, though . probably not. as study other charlotte, north carolina. watch. we can figure it out, or we can just send you back to louisville without your chair. a quadriplegic man says eigh american airlines refused to load his chair because there wa
their constituents with the key win here. that being said, jim, the white house, this is the strategy that biden has implemented, even before he became president. when it appeared as though certain gaffes or other issues during his presidential campaign would take him down, the white house always sticks to their original strategy, biden usually always sticks to his original strategy. and that was trying to pass these two bills in tandem together knowing that he had to do it that way, because the fact that progressives want a lot of what s in the spending package, his moderate centrist faction wants the infrastructure bill, and so the white house is deciding to pretty much ignore the noise, which is what they did a lot during the infrastructure battle and want to plow ahead with their plan thinking that ultimately voters are only going to care about that end result versus a lot of the infighting that happened in between. so they try to focus on the positive and what they have seen
nature, that infrastructure battle that you were just talking about and then ones that are really fundamental to the way government works and functions. both of these spending cliffs, the debt ceiling one that is not typical party politics as usual. that s something that usually both parties can work together on lifting or spending. we ve all covered these government shutdowns before. at least this one could be averted in the next coming hours. this is wait until the last possible second to then delay things just a little bit more. is this going to affect biden s agenda, all of this when we re seeing things really are coming to the edge here? reporter: look, it s a lot of chaos right now on capitol hill, both on the funding front but also on the president s signature policy achievements over the build back better agenda. what we re seen over the course of the last few weeks, the more things change, the more things remain the same. progressives are not going to
0 up the coverage right now. good morning, it s 9:00 a.m., i m jose diaz-balart in for stephanie ruhle who s on assignment. a massive infrastructure vote, the pressure is on in the house and the senate. senate republicans standing their ground on the debt limit as a rift between democrats appears to grow even wider. also on the hill this morning, in 30 minutes defense secretary lloyd austin, general mark milley and general mckenzie will face another day of questions, this time from members of the house armed services committee. two of the top military officials admitting yesterday they disagreed with the president about how the u.s. should withdraw from afghanistan. and on the covid front there may be a glimmer of hope this morning, some southern states appear to be past the latest peak. we ll revisit an icu in hard hit mississippi to see firsthand how hospitals are holding up. and we begin on capitol hill where democrats in the house and senate are in a stalemate with just hours b
reporter: the president s pulled up his continue to plunge, the latest clear politics average his approval rating dropping four points from last month, nearly 10 points from april to below 46%, republicans on the hell are ready for a fight over green new deal politics. we talked about infrastructure for a long time what everybody considered infrastructure. where they have gone on the left is to redefine infrastructure to include a lot of anti-fossil fuel green new deal type proposals. the infrastructure battle starts later this month when congress returns. one of the residents in our next hour when we speak. looking forward to what she had to say. embattled california governor gavin newsom. he comes under fire for