a two-minute warning with the briefing. we ll be on top of it. let s jump to suzanne malveaux because the pushback to biden s, hey, we re putting in a lot of money on climate and we re ahead of the curve but what is your ability to get anybody to do anything especially when it comes to russia and china and they will say, by the way, you can t even get your own party to get things done. is that story going to change early next week? this certainly that that changes. they are looking at tuesday as a point to vote on both of those bills as well as the social safety net bill, but i have to tell you this, chris, three criteria and hurdles they are contending with. the first one is they want the assurances, the progressive democrats want assurances that the moderates manchin and sinema will go ahead with this bigger bill. heard it from senator sanders
my presence will be determined by what happens in the next weeks. and i think that that statement really speaks for the fact that the president knew what was on the line yesterday. moderates knew what was on the line yesterday. progressives knew. democratic leadership knew. yet they were still unable to find a consensus. now, briannbrianna, what change the next couple of weeks? progressives did support the framework that the president laid out. that is significant. that is progress. however, they also are still arguing they want to have votes on both that bigger social safety net bill and infrastructure bill in tandem. that is their key sticking point. so far they are arguing they are not coming off of that and nothing is changing yet on capitol hill. brianna. yeah. the mistrust between democrats is i haven t seen it to this degree before, lauren. we will see how that is going to play into the evolution of this
this bill together. he has not come through with those, so we ll see how they react when they study for of this. a major moment for the president trying to get his agenda through. his caucus is not yet in line. do they change their minds is the big question as we talk to members coming up. we look forward to that. you ll do your best to get that comment. john, as manu pointed out, we ve heard consistently progressives need a firm commitment from man chinn and sinema. we heard from senator dick durbin a short time ago after the meeting started. he said i wish i could say yes but there s a grel oat deal of uncertainty in the caucus. he was asked if they re all on board and he couldn t say yes. how does that play into what the president is expected to say in the meeting? reporter: nobody can say yes to that question about manchin and sinema given how much they have indulged the veto power they have given the fact that
democrats have zero margin for error, must hold all 50 senators. they have not subsumed their own interest to those of the democratic team, but joe biden is rolling the dice, saying this is what we ve got. he s trying to convey confidence to democrats that they are going to go along. he s doing it by trying to emphasize what is in this bill. everybody has been talking about what has come out since his original request of $3.5 trillion. they ve lost things like two years of free community college. they ve lost paid leave from the plan. that s been a long-standing democratic priority. on the pay-for side, they lost the 11th-hour attempt to get a billionaires tax in, lost an attempt to raise the corporate and individual marginal tax rates. on the other hand, there is a whole lot of democratic priority in this bill. you ve got expanded child care subsidies, two years of universal pre-k, you ve got expanded subsidies for
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