his trillion dollar infrastructure plan and his social safety net package. democrats are stubbornly divided into two camps and those camps are still far apart. ticktock. clock is ticking. midterm elections now a little more than a year away and if the democrats fail to pass meaningful jobs and economic legislation, the consequences not could be dire for anyone running in 2022 or 2024, it will be dire. mark my words. maybe too far. i don t know, i think they still might have some time to pull it back but the window is quickly closing. that s how big the stakes are. moderate senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema are the lynch pins to getting the social safety net legislation passed and fighting back against progressives that want to spend
entitled, that that is in fact reality. it s not. that is not what this country is all about. at least what it shouldn t be but that s where we are now. now, let s talk about what s happening or isn t with the democrats in washington when it comes to passing two of the biggest pieces of president biden s domestic legislative agenda. his trillion dollar infrastructure plan and his social safety net package. democrats are stubbornly divided into two camps and those camps are still far apart. ticktock. clock is ticking. midterm elections now a little more than a year away and if the democrats fail to pass meaningful jobs and economic legislation, the consequences could not be dire but will be
stretched and very thin. i mean, if democrats are wise to that, better late than never. carol, thank you for your reporting. i appreciate it. elsewhere on capitol hill, infrastructure negotiations are ongoing. president biden and democrats are maintaining the social safety net package, the huge bill, must be negotiated before the bipartisan infrastructure bill can be passed to the frustration of the smaller group s party moderates who want to pass the bill on its own. joining me now is representative susan wild. congresswoman, good morning. you say you had a productive talk about president biden this week about the path toward passing both bills in tandem. what programs are you prioritizing and what are the sticking points when it comes to
that pits americans against one another. these bills are about competitiveness versus complacency. they re about opportunity versus decay. they are about leading the world or continuing to let the world pass us by, which is literally happening. well, sources say president biden is ready to cut the cost of his social safety net package for moderate democrats. cnn s manu raju explains. reporter: democrats on capitol hill are still trying to sort through major divisions on joe biden s economic package. on one side the left want a massive, multi trillion dollar bill. something close to $3 trillion. they are willing to come down from $3.5 trillion, their initial ask, but not too much further. then you have people like joe manchin, people in the middle, who want $1.5 trillion, but are now saying they re willing to go up, but not nearly as high as the progressives want. earlier on tuesday i asked joe manchin if he s open to going to
each other. there wouldn t be this trick or this sort of bypasses in the system that you can use, right, in order not to be bipartisan. finally. i hope most of the democrats in washington are waking up to this. okay. so, listen, president biden told house progressives that the house safety net package has to come down from $3.5 trillion to 1.9 to $2.2 trillion. where are you willing to make cuts? yeah. well, i think we have to decide what is most important in this. what are the programs that we feel have to be in. and then we can decide on the top line number because it will be variable depending how many years those programs are for, whether it s five years, ten years, into perpetuity. and so i think we have a lot of agreement what those programs should be. you know, they re dealing with the environment, yes, but they re also dealing with helping hardworking american families who have had a really