white house believes that s going to give space for those negotiations to go more in depth and happen in a way that both sides have crystalized their positions publicly and more committed to getting to a deal. is there any timeline from the white house? i know the president made a point of saying it could be as long as whatever. but obviously, speaker pelosi, whether you think she should have set a deadline or not, she did bring this to a head. if there s no urgency, this could just drag on. that s one of the risks here and so it s interesting. we heard the white house focus on this deadline, self-imposed deadline. and even earlier today the white house pres secretary said the artificial deadlines are helpful. today we hear the president talking about six days, six weeks. ultimately this bill was reauthorized for another 30 days. i think that s going to be the timeline the white house is looking at. they re not go tag take a pause. they re going to remain in
rer, release add statement in part saying i m sadly disappointed and dissolutioned with the process. she criticized the speaker s decision to delay the infrastructure vote again. a misguided attempt to assert leverage over the reconciliation bill? no one s going to assert leverage over president biden. two-term vice president. this is what he wants and that s what we were always saying. the idea a few progressives and the house were going to exert leverage over the peeker and the president is not true. he wants both of them because he wants to help people. stephanie murphy s been a constructive voice and i hope she ll get behind the president s vision. next, two political professionals. their take on the president s decision to call a timeout. new, developments on the hunt for brian landrie.
pelosi that she s not bringing the bill to the floor means this bigger $3.5 trillion or smaller package, however large it turns out to be, social safety net bill is so tied inextricably 2450 bipartisan infrastructure bill and they re concerned because the argument behind the scenes that leadership has been making according to aids i ve been talking to is that bipartisan infrastructure bill is a gateway drug to the bigger socialist package. that s what republicans are calling it. so, if you vote for the bipartisan bill, you re helping bringing the bigger bill along. now that pelosi is saying these two bills are so linked, that really gives republicans, who were thinking about helping pass that bipartisan bill, some pause. joining us one of the recipients of speaker pelosi s dear letter.
on the hill? clearly it seems the progressives are at least now going to be going back, looking, as she said, their priorities and perhaps coming down from the number of 3.5 trillion? and that s one of the reasons why white house officials i spoke with tonight feel pretty good about the visit to capitol hill accomplished. they feel he the president acommentlished what he went there to do. first of all to remind them of what s at stake. and more importantly, really to try to relieve some of the pressure that has been building up on capitol hill over the last several days. what s interesting about that is the white house and president have very much in part of that build up, that pressure that was building up over the last several days. very much pushing yesterday for the vote on the infrastructure bill to happen. but since that collapsed, the president went in with this mindset of trying to release some of the pressure and the
one of the ablest, smartest men of the whole wing, or the whole congress, if you ask me. he s happy. listen to what biden did. i have to have both the roads, bridges and infrastructure package and the child care welfare package. that made the liberals very happy. then he said we re going to have to come down from 3.5 trillion to 2 trillion and it s still the liberals are happy about that. that s a pretty artful thing. i ve talked to a few moderates that are still crabby. i m guessing they re going to hear you guys better get something done or we re going to fire you. biden knows what he s doing. he s been a senator since, i think since they shot alexander hamilton. so, he knows what he s doing. i think paul s right. i think the president split the baby. gavl both sides a reason to move forward and he needed to do it. the more broad question though