announced, every single democratic snar senator i spoke to said no way that we ll do it through reconciliation. but at least we won t be going off the debt ceiling cliff anytime soon. and when we hit early december, we ll do the whole quartet of crises that we had in september again because it is not just the debt ceiling, it is also government funding comes due and then the democrats will also be dealing with the bipartisan infrastructure pack think and as well as the social spending bill. quartet of crises, i wrote that down. so let s talk about the president s social spending plan because the hill team has some new reporting about how democrats are pretty much torn over how to scale back the agenda from $3.5 trillion since sinema and manchin won t go to that. so one idea is focus on a few programs and strip away the
complicated for the democrats overnight when senator joe manchin issued a harsh statement slamming progressives for trying to, quote, reengineer the economic and social fabric of our country. while progressives slammed him for failing to negotiate in good faith. so this morning, intense negotiations continue on the hill. they will continue meetings with key members of congress. but if manchin won t deal on that big human infrastructure bill and progressives vote for the smaller, hard infrastructure bill, joe biden s agenda could fall victim. i want to go to the white house. great to have you. on a wild and incredibly important day, let s start with the pressing issue. are we going to avoid a government shutdown at least for now? reporter: every indication is
he hasn t said if he ll support that route. what is your message to him? he has said he does support the current two-track process. i think we need to have some time to let this play out and compare the two proposals. if there s not climate change put into the bipartisan bill or if there s not funding for co-priorities, i m not sure the house would be able to support that. let s see what two proposals ultimately look like at the end of the day. to be clear, he says he needs to see what s in the bill. he s supportive of the two-track process on reconciliation he s not committed to that. i want to ask you about your colleague, congresswoman cortez who said she won t commit to the plan if manchin won t commit to the reconciliation package. would you do the same? i think right now it s important to just let the two parallel tracks play out and to