relief after my colleague broke the news of the parameters of a deal that manchin could get behind the ones that he presented to the white house last week. the $1. trillion deal that you just outlined. there are clearly some common grounds here and the white house recognizes that. there are palpable frustration. there is one potential major casualty that the white house and moderate democrats, people like senator michael bennett that are not going to be happy with. that s manchin s exclusion in this proposal that he puts forward of the child tax credit.
there but that decision, we certainly welcome him to join us if you are so inclined. a lot of folks ask is manchin going to become a republican? i hope it does. i have asked him to. a lot of questions and a lot to talk about. manchin has not indicated if he would join the gop. dc fun. thank you very much. there is this notion on the left that if you beat, chain, cancel people into submission they will do what you want them to do but look at what joe manchin did over the last 48 hours and you look at what people have been doing in society in general over the course of the last year, fighting back against this cancel culture notion, you see it happening more and more, that s a great sign going forward, joe manchin will not be been into submission and when you look at what the american people ultimately once joe
people living in poverty and low wealth, over 52% of our children. this build back better plan, 39 million families would be affected by the child income tax credit. 17 million in earned income tax credit. 18 million low-wage, home health workers. the people who come in our homes and help us. 4 million families would get health insurance that don t have it now. and 52 senators, 50 republicans and two democrats, are blocking millions of people. it is a form of abuse, political abuse, it is sinful, it is wrong, and so the people from 33 state impacted people, are coming to say, this is not biden against manchin, this is manchin against us. they re coming from all over. and 39 other organizations. and we re going to engage in direct action. we re going to protest. we re going to push. we re going to put a face on it, because lastly, what happened in this, we got hung on 6 trillion, 3 trillion, 4 trillion, when the
parliamentarian this week. you want this bill passed this week. is that going to happen? i can tell you, we can get it ready this week and pass it next week is probably a realistic goal. my fingers are crossed. sooner we can move to it, the better. if it be can done this week, it should be done this week. we re working, have been working nonstop on this immigration aspect of reconciliation for months now, it seems. i think we re close to the final decision as to whether we can go forward. is manchin on board with getting immigration in this? joe manchin voted for comprehensive immigration reform as a number of republicans did. he s as committed to that happening and i am too. i hope i can appeal to joe sure includes this. pramila jayapal said she wants want s to see the text of the big social spending plan.
ten sinema of arizona and west virginia s manchin who rejected a larger price tag and certain climate proposals in the bill. it is just the language of it but it will not offend shall we say the concern that senator manchin has. reporter: the president is eager to have a commitment before thursday when he departs for two major economic and climate summits, hoping to tout legislative progress on his agenda on the world stage. monica is with me now. i know we just got details of what happened in that meeting today with senator manchin. reporter: the white house says it was a productive discussion with continued progress and they ll keep working on the president s multi trillion dollars plans in the coming days before he heads overseas. kate? all right. monica, thank you. we have two pieces of good news on the covid front tonight. infection rates are down. a whopping 50% since their peak in september. just days from now a covid vaccine could be approved for kids ages 5 to 11.