college, what town doesn t need that? 12 weeks of paid leave to care for our sick or elderly family members. these are not partisan issues. these are human and american issues, and yet, is it fair to say that this is up to the democrats? i mean, this lives or dies on whether the democrats can get the caucus together. absolutely. and i think it s important to talk about the bill in those real human terms. we can throw around the price tag number but this is basically the core legislative promises that the democratic party has been running on and has promised for years if not decades. these are not outlier controversial issues. we re not talking about medicare for all. we re not talking about the green new deal. we re talking about things that the large portions of the party universally agree on. large portions of the american public agree on. it is congress, it s washington, and it is not set up to do that as structures that people like
even heard from congressman gottheimer, the problem solver s co-chair. he s also mentioned that at least when it comes to those sticking points which is the promise to have this vote by tomorrow. really what they re going to do now is consider it. there is no necessarily rule laid out that says how it should be brought up, when it should be brought up. except that it should be generally considered by the house tomorrow. so when it comes to actual sticking points, there s a number of things that of course progressives and moderates are asking. right now it s really the process. when are they going to be able to finally vote. and, of course, the progressives are not going to give moderates any votes on that bipartisan bill until reconciliation is done. that reconciliation bill, of course, is still in the process of trying to figure out that price tag number. it s likely going to get cut as you heard pelosi say.