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eventually up to new york city for the u.n. general assembly, a speech he ll be giving later on this week. back in washington the focus is really on his domestic agenda, those two massive spending bills. one, the infrastructure bill to fix roads, bridges, expand broadband questions, the other to expand the social safety net. that is still facing quite a bit of opposition, but we heard from one top house democrat today who said the public will support these efforts to expand education and child programs. what we ve seen many polling on what in polling on what we re trying to accomplish, americans are overwhelmingly in favor of the elements of the build back better agenda. so we feel we re on very, very strong political ground in pushing for these kind of investments and benefits to the american people. reporter: republicans are standing firm in their opposition to the larger package, that $3.5 trillion package. they argue the tax increases that would go alongside the significant s

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