that price tag. how do you break that? how do you win her over? i think that right now we re just talking about the budget process that sets up an opportunity for all the committees of the senate to put together the bill. and it would serve us all well to wait until we see it and be active in the process of putting it together before determining how one is going to vote. so i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to keep an open mind as we assemble that budget reconciliation bill. but it s a two-step process. at least we have everyone s commitment in the democratic caucus to open that process up and begin it. i want to move on and talk about covid and what s happening across the country in terms of the unvaccinated and the spread
all right what she has just said is entirely counter to what president biden has committed to and what the senate is doing, which is a two-step process. the infrastructure bill has nothing to do with the reckless tax and spend extravaganza that she s talking about in terms of what reconciliation as she called it. so, no, i m not happy with what she said because it s inconsistent with the agreement that we have on a bipartisan basis. jon: that, obviously, ohio senator rob portman answering nancy pelosi s suggestion that the house is not even going to consider the infrastructure bill until it gets out of the senate. your thoughts on that argument. well, i think we re getting a lot of mixed messages. at first we heard it was going to be done through reconciliation which is a budget gimmick that allows the democrats to pass something in the senate with less than 60 votes, and now hearing that the infrastructure package needs to be beefed up even though in the senate it s being negoti
maybe this is a two-step process. maybe the first part of the process is to educate people about the attack on voting rights. maybe the second part of the process is to educate people about how to respond to it. but if you listen to texas democrats that just left the state, time is running out. they have an august 6th deadline to go back to texas to face arrest. what they are saying is if we don t get congressional legislation to stop voter suppression, they are going to enact a new bill. so they are saying we have three weeks to act and it doesn t feel like congress or the president has that same sense of urgency. judith, the white house will admit that they may not have won the senate, control of the senate, those two georgia seats if this georgia law had been in place. i mean they see, to eli and ari s point, they seem clear-eyed about the threat. if you could just pick up on ari s point that today s speech was really the first time that
create millions of good paying jobs. that is what the american people want. that s what we ve got to do. are you comfortable with a two-step process where you do you noted, this is the 25% of what president biden asked for. is it worth it in your mind to take what you can get in a bipartisan way, especially if that s the way you can get joe manchin and kyrsten sinema to get on board a democrats-only bill that may tackle the care economy as you just outlined? well, look. as i said, what is in the bipartisan bill in terms of spending is, from what i can see, mostly good, roads and bridges, and we need do that. that s what we re proposing in our legislation, but in much greater numbers. one of the concerns i do have about the bipartisan bill is how they are going to pay for their proposals. they re not clear yet. i don t know that they even know yet. some of the speculation is
everything means there s constant fuel for the grievance fire. it s a big country, and there s always an outrage somewhere. david french, author of that piece, senior editor of the dispatch and columnist for time magazine. i didn t have the language for it. then i read your column and a couple days later i heard obama talk about it, and it all kind of connected for me. spell out how you view nationalization, what that means and why it s a problem. it s a two-step process. number one, what s really important to understand is we live in something called negative partisanship. that means people are republicans not so much because they love republican ideas but because they dislike democrats. people are democrats not because they like the ideals but because they don t like republicans. there is a market for justification of that animosity.