speak to their state transportation departments, governors to get a list of infrastructure priorities. congressional democrats want to cram more in there than just bridges, roads and trains. the budget chairman told the hill the next reconciliation bill will likely combine infrastructure, healthcare and more as some colleagues are pushing to pass other priorities like immigration reform through reconciliation. that is the procedural tool that democrats used to pass the covid bill without republican support. it s unclear if those types of initiatives could get through the process. some could argue they re not tied to the budget. we re not there yet anyway. republicans expressed willingness to work with democrats on infrastructure, which is the biggest focus. this bold action is ours. if we want to work with republicans, we will. where we can we will. we will not be deterred from big bold action when we can t work with them. the white house sees the infrastructure as a way
these items out of his framework, that $1.75 trillion plan he presented to house democrats on thursday. you heard senator bernie sanders alluding to this on cnn this morning, saying that he s been on the phones all weekend trying to work those items back in, which by the way he said he did not endorse this plan as is. it s a strong bill, he called it, but they re still working on it, as you mentioned at the top, they have to put their pens down by today to get this across the finish line on tuesday. let s take a listen to some of what senator bernie sanders, the budget chairman, said on cnn this morning. look, this is not about senator sinema or senator manchin. it s about 50 senators. i think there has got to be a framework agreed upon in the senate that all of us know is going to be implemented before the members of the house vote. it will be a framework. you ll have a piece of paper which will say this is going to be in the bill. you don t have to have all of the legislative langu
hearing. that has been a key priority of senator bernie sanders, the budget chairman. that could be in flux at this point. there is also concern that manchin raised about paid leave. there s question about whether or not democrats will be able to give enough assurances to house progressives to allow this procession to move forward. remember, a lot of house progressives have been calling for not just a framework, but potentially a senate vote in tandem with that bipartisan frsks bill. manchin made it clear, even if they have a framework, it s going to take a long time to get firmer details. here is what he said a short time ago. we need to move forward. the president has made that very clear. he s made that very clear. we owe it to the president to move forward. we re not doing everything today. the senate is going to take time. you think it s going to happen today in the senate, we re trying to agree to a framework. the president has been very clear, he ll go over to the
$3.5 trillion. though we should note the price tag is not final. we have not seen any agreement coming out of the white house yet, those that s a big one. don, what that question raise series what s going to be cut and scaled back if that is the new number. and we know today during these meetings, president biden did say he doesn t think that they re going to get the two years of free community college in this. that had been a major white house priority, and certainly a priority of his and one that he has been touting. but now it seems unlikely that s going to be in here. the other thing, don, the child tax credit that is something the white house and democrats wanted to extend for several years. based on the talks today, it sounds like it s going to be closer to just one year of an extension, though we should note there is some things that progressives kept in here that they wanted that includes that medicare expansion, people like bernie sanders, the budget chairman had been pushing
medicare expansion, people like bernie sanders, the budget chairman had been pushing for. those things still seem to be in here. none of this is final. this is just where the discussions were today. it is giving you an idea of how these talks are going and what is going to make it and what may not make it. listen, i m going to speak with congresswoman pramila jayapal a little bit later on in the program in the next hour. what i want to ask you is, you said the two years of college probably not going to make it. it is still unclear how democrats are going to resolve the climate change issues, but if the rest of the bill is any indication, do you think manchin is ultimately going to get his way, kaitlan? well, he could when it comes to part of the climate provisions. now there have been moderate democrats who said we don t want to scale back the climate change aspect of this, because that is really important to us. but we know senator manchin, of course, is in a very different positi