around the world get to take for granted and that american citizens can t expect, especially when it comes to linkages involving public tran sit, rail, this is a chance to do something about that. we have to be smarter about connecting to the airports and improving the airports ourselves. one of the least controversial parts of the bill was putting $25 billion into that kind of infrastructure. we have to level up in this country. you know, willie, it s you go to boston, you land at logan, you re in town because of the big dig but you get in town quickly. you land at dca you get in town quickly. that happens in a lot of cities. but again, new york i put chicago, o hare in there too, again second rate. again, the productivity that s lost, i know discourages people from coming to new york.
$6 trillion bill, joe is not going to be anywhere close to that $6 trillion bill. but it s interesting. joe manchin voted at the against the trump tax cuts because as he said, he believes that it unfairly benefitted the richest of americans. so he wants those adjustments. he knows not a single republican is going to support those adjustments. so those are going to be some of the pay fors in the second bill but that s going to be complicated, that s going to require democrats to sit down and talk to each other. that s going to require probably weeks, maybe months of negotiations to get to that second infrastructure bill. that human infrastructure bill. or as joe calls it the social adjustments they re not going to get in that first infrastructure bill. but they can get that first infrastructure bill but it s just not going to come to the house floor at the same time as as the hard infrastructure
republicans actually, these ten republicans or whoever they are, are actually i m sure getting volumes of hate phone calls from their constituents from their base telling them don t do any deals with democrats. they ve pulled them out to get to 60, and now they re hearing, great, we re going to use republicans so we can churn through $1.2 trillion price tag, republicans helped us with that and at the same time use that as an excuse to roll the same republicans to roll those same republicans so you can then get an infrastructure plan that s not the hard infrastructure, that is more human infrastructure. which all those republicans wouldn t vote for and right now joe manchin wouldn t vote for it and kyrsten sinema wouldn t vote for it. talking about having to have both of those bills linked at the same time, it s not even
jfk for the most part and the infrastructure to get from jfk to the city is just it s just absolutely dismal. right. if you book me for about three hours i can walk you through some really convoluted it s actually important if nerd dy. we ve got time. great. here we go. the way our funding works it breaks up transit from aviation funding in a way that s different from any other country where you have a seamless experience, get off the plane, into some kind of public transportation downtown relatively quickly. that doesn t happen in most big cities in the u.s. and it largely has to do with things that i think we could eventually address as a matter of policy but it s also the fact that we as a country have not done what it takes to have world class infrastructure. as an american it s embarrassing sometimes to see the standard that citizens of other countries
to tout the economic benefits of the plan. but the legislative path is still very unclear. house speaker nancy pelosi said she will not consider the bipartisan infrastructure plan until the senate approves a second, larger package. despite president biden s walk back over the weekend that the two bills would not be linked. to that point, senator minority leader, mitch mcconnell released a statement yesterday incysting the two pieces of legislation be separated. i appreciate the president saying that he s willing to deal with infrastructure separately. but he doesn t control the congress. and the speaker and the majority leader of the senate will determine the order. and so, what i did this morning is to call on the president to ask the majority leader and the speaker to deal with these issues separately. , you know, willie, america