progressive s push saying this bill they want to be a bold pro progressive effort to combat global warming and joe manchin who represents a key state, a key coal producing state of west virginia, and made it clear he will not go nearly as far as what the progressives want. the question is can they get n near a deal. joe manchin laughed when i asked about getting a deal today. and what about next week, i don t think so. meaning that puts things in real question because this is tied, as jeff noted to that separate effort on infrastructure. $1.2 trillion that passed the senate last month, that would deal with roads, bridges, broad band, and nancy pelosi is moving forward at the moment for a voting on that on monday in the house. but the progressives are warning that they will sink that infrastructure bill if that larger economic package, that they are negotiating has not passed by then. and so there s no chance that it
the committees in the house already did the work. we already passed through committees a significant number of things. there might be a few things left that still need to be worked out. prescription drug pricing is very important, and i m disappointed we haven t passed that through committee. it was passed by democrats last congress, and we need to reign in the price of prescription drugs. there are a couple of things on the table but the reality is joe manchin, kyrsten sinema need to actually realize they drafted the infrastructure bill without any input from any of us. we have drafted a reconciliation bill, and they need to come along. we re all part of the democrats team, and this is the president s agenda we re delivering on. it does sound like even in the democratic caucus, you don t have the votes for the 3.5 trillion. oh, i really believe that we have done the work, and there are few things left. there are things i m trying to get in and make sure that enter in. that always