like the co-presidency in the senate with the manchin or sinema wing. is there anything he can do to get this time line moving before it s thanksgiving? get out to american people in that bill and get off the table the top line number. polls are suggesting that came out, they like the element of this bill. they don t know what s in it. only 40% of people polled in that poll actually knew there was an element of that bill that would reduce drug prices and give them drug care and dental care. what they know more is it s going to cost 3.5 trillion. they know the top line figure.
reconciliation, the process for the larger budget, fails in the senate. cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox is live on capitol hill. we should note manchin is not the only one who expressed reservations about the top line figure. my question is, is this part of a negotiation which always happens with these bills? or is it a more potentially a more severe threat to coming to final agreement? reporter: well, look, jim, i think this is about leverage. and we re going to know more when the senate returns next week. but in a 50/50 senate, any one member it has repeatedly been senator joe manchin has a lot of sway over this process. like you said, he had called for the strategic pause last week. he also now is telling lawmakers privately, his colleagues, that he would support a proposal around that 1 trillion to 1.5 trillion number. he s also flexible. he wants to ensure there are pay fors. like you said, he is not the only democrat with concerns. and this isn t the only issue.
debate about the top line figure and manchin and the moderates in the house want to bring it down a bit, do you really expect that they re not going to come to agreement on spending some number of trillions of dollars? no, i mean, it really does look as you said, that they will agree on something. we just don t know exactly what that looks like. and remember, look, they want to spend money as you ve indicated. they also want to keep the majority in the senate and the house. and they really need to pass something to show voters and constituents, look, we did this. this is a huge deal. here s what we ve come up with. a lot of the democratic agenda besides this has not gotten anywhere. immigration, voting rights, police reform, the minimum wage, all these things that president biden and the democrats talked about. this is really where they re putting their priority and they need to get something done. the president, as you know, getting flack from both democrats and republicans for hi
them meeting. the effort is to portray an image of inclusiveity. we don t know who is going to emerge as their leader, whether it s a hard line figure or somebody more moderate. alicia: jessica, thank you so much. appreciate your time today. thank you. alicia: keep it right here for president biden s update on the evacuations in afghanistan, just minutes away at 4:00 p.m. eastern and we will bring that to you live. ben. benjamin: catastrophic flooding in tennessee has turned deadly, at least 16 people have been killed and dozens are missing. we are live in tennessee, coming up next. i ve got moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now, there s skyrizi. things are getting clearer. i feel free to bare my skin yeah, that s all me. nothing and me go hand in hand nothing on my skin, that s my new plan. nothing is everything. achieve clearer skin with skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months.
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