harwood. okay. ryan, welcome back. john, good evening to you. ryan, since we last spoke, you actually had the breaking news. this was your reporting, no vote tonight. comes after a flurry of meetings, tension building all day. what happened? what s the plan now? yeah. so, don, i really think that what happened here today is that throughout the course of the day, you saw the white house and the congressional leaders in the house and senate, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer attempt to try and bring together the most prominent voices in these disspirited factions of the democratic party and get them all on the same page. late tonight we saw kirsten sinema, joe manchin and bernie sanders coming in and out of senate offices. and we know from our reporting that they were trying to put together a deal that each one of those people would sign off on and say that they support. and we don t really know where senator manchin and senator sinema were on those negotiations, if they were an
The few things we can apparently find common ground on in the u.s. senate, infrastructure. representative stacy ey plaskett said to me that her concern, much of it, however you want to characterize it, was already paid for. there are paid fors for a lot of this, and to her it didn t seem like she thought this would it was progress. something would be done. but much of this was already paid for. is she correct in that? well, you ve got to be careful about being too quick to say this doesn t cost anything. these are trillion dollar bills. they re massive by any measure. the question is whether the revenue is going to offset the cost. and that gets down to the devil being in the details. if joe manchin says, look, i want to keep the corporate tax rate to 25% down to 26.5% produced by the house. if they have a corporate minimum