that. and certainly i imagine there are going to be some people we hear continuing to weigh in because you mentioned the policy priorities that have fallen out of this bill. paid leave was one the speaker mentioned specifically, saying she wants to fight to have it in there. there are people on the senate side, specifically kirsten gillibrand who want to fight to keep it in. the other thing that s happening is progressives are trying to figure out where they stand on this. i was forwarded an email that was sent by congresswoman pa jayapal trying to whip her members and take their temperatures on where they are in endorsing the framework released today in principle but also where they are opposing the bipartisan infrastructure vote that could happen today. this is why jayapal says that is important. we need to see both votes on the build back better act and the infrastructure bill moving forward together.
we ve been talking about doing the both of these together, and that s what we need. i m not willing to push to say that we don t need money for higher education, you know what because this is the thing. there are home care workers that came to me in my district, that cried because they were talking about nobody fights for us. congresswoman, you are our congresswoman, will you fight for us. i remember those faces right now. i will not turn my back on those home care workers. i won t turn by back on teachers and principals. i won t turn by back on anyone else in our community. we can t just look at one sect of our community. we have to look at the whole of it. and they deserve it. so, cori bush, i stand with my people, all of them. let me ask you this congresswoman, and i promise i ll let you go. it seems as though looking where this lies, the chances both bills will move, that s going to take a fairly heavy lift. rej legislative text, if it s
washington are struggling with right now. what s the best way to shrink the president s agenda to a size that will get these holdout senators on board. you slink the entire plan funding all the programs but at a lower rate? do you cut certain investments entirely? do you lower the total cost by shortening the amount of time that the programs are funded for and hope they become so popular that a congress a few years down the road will renew them? these are the questions i ve got and joining us is congresswoman pa jayapal. thank you for being with us. that was the best effort we could get to at conveying what has been going on at congress. but you re actually in those meetings. you re in the room where it happened. so, how much of what i just told the audience is accurate? ali, it s good to see you. thanks very having me on. look, there s some things that are accurate in that we are trying to get to a set of