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rather than then because you can be sure that if it had not come then means we would have a no confidence vote next monday. find means we would have a no-confidence vote next monday. vote next monday. and they have effectively said vote next monday. and they have effectively said that vote next monday. and they have effectively said that the vote next monday. and they have effectively said that the rules i effectively said that the rules could change. effectively said that the rules could change. effectively said that the rules could chance. ., ., ., , could change. there would have to be some rule change could change. there would have to be some rule change which could change. there would have to be some rule change which would - could change. there would have to be some rule change which would take . could change. there would have to be some rule change which would take a | some rule change which would take a little bit of time. we saw sir geoffrey clifton brown, the con
is one they themselves created. speaker pelosi made a deal with moderates she would hold a vote on the president s infrastructure bill by this coming monday. the hope was that the bigger $3.5 trillion bill would be done at the same time, something progressives say has to happen so that they can both vote for both bills at the same time. but it doesn t look like that s going to happen. so that leaves democratic leaders with basically three ways to go here, they can try to pass the infrastructure bill on monday and risk angry progressives blocking it, they can delay the vote and break their promise to the moderates or they can grit their teeth and work like hell to get that reconciliation bill or something close enough to a deal to please progressives done by monday. i want to bring in monica alba at the white house, my colleague sahil kapur on capitol hill, jeff mason reuters white house correspondent and claire mccaskill who served 12 years as a democratic senator from missouri. sahil,
outcome? reporter: garrett, they look likely to attempt number three, but i think number one is the most likely outcome. they re going to proceed with that vote and as things stand it does not have the support it needs to pass. they have said there are dozens of democrats, as many as 40 or 50 ready to tank it. they are at least in the teens and the fact that house republican leadership is whipping their members to vote no strengthens jayapal s hand to tank this bill. at the heart of this, this is a bit of mistrust, a disconnect between the centrists and the progressives. centrists got language in the rule saying the house shall vote on the 27th, but progressives are worried if that infrastructure bill passes that the centrists will have no use for for that bigger multi-trillion dollar package and that is their top priority at this moment. they re willing to stop infrastructure. in their view this was a package deal, they were only going to
support the surface transportation bill while the other one was moving side-by-side. the centrists said we never agreed to that and never wanted to link them. they will have to regroup after that vote and figure this out. we will come back to the trust deficit, but, monica, can you take us behind the scenes at yesterday s meeting at the white house. so many lawmakers were anxious to see joe biden jump into the fray here, he has done so. what role will he play going forward? reporter: the phrase from here was that the president was ready to roll up his sleeves and dive in over the span of these multiple meetings. the white house in a public readout called them very candid and productive conversations where they wanted to indicate that progress was made, but the subtlety there and the subtext that s important is that no solutions were reached. it s not like they came out of these meetings knowing which path forward they were going to take. it was more like according to white house of