it to next year, the divided congress, the narrowly divided republican house and the democratic senate getting a deal next year which is why they re trying to get this done next week. congress continues to blow past the deadlines to fund the entire federal government. they were supposed to do this september 30th, passing each of the 12 annual appropriations bills an they couldn t do that so they punched it until december 16th to get a deadline and they still don t have a deal and they re trying to put it together in one bill called an anybody us spending bill but they still don t have agreement on how much to fund the republicans. they re far apart. democrats want more money for pentagon and domestic spending. about $26 billion or so apart. about $1.57 trillion to fund the government. they still haven t figured out the exact dollar amount. but if they can t get a deal by
she will have a smaller write off for taxes. like many adults, betty is paying off student loans. one of 49 million americans who owe $1.57 trillion in student loans today. betty nearly doubled her debt by going to graduate school in a field she did not pursue. betty, like 90% of student loan borrows have taken a pause on the repayment plan. like the child tax credit, it was a tradeoff. betty is not going to writeoff the federal student loan interest when it comes time to file taxes for 2021. betty and her partner are smart. they have mutual funds which did well, but they are not invested in a 401(k). any gains the fund took are
back better law signed into law. i think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now come back at this thing. so what the president called chunks i would hope would be a major bill going forward, it may be more limited, but it is still significant. congressman bowden, how do you feel about chunks versus one comprehensive bill? one big comprehensive bill that would pass the reconciliation process. it s mind-boggling to me, once again. the bipartisan framework passed. it adds $256 billion to the deficit. so it makes it worse. we had build back better paid for at about $2.4/2.5 trillion. it s been so-called back to 1.57
out with a piece that says in part caving to manchin s demands will require democrats to sacrifice some worthy parts of their agenda but it s time for them to buck up and do it lest they end up with nothing at all. do democrats have any option here at all, ron brownstein? do they have another option? they do. the demands manchin are making now are fundamentally incompatible. he s basically saying the bill should be held to 1.57 trillion but any programs included in it should be funded over ten years. if you did the child tax credit that about eats up the entire spending he s willing to support at this point. so, yes, clearly they are going to have to make some changes if they are going to get him onboard. but what he is asking for is essentially something that would blow up the entire democratic coalition. and maybe that s why he s asking for it. i mean other democratic senators
she could get involved with the crime crisis. quick thoughts on just the fact they don t have anybody purposed for this. precisely. who should run instead of joe biden, the vice president clocks in at 13% wanting her to be the replacement ahead of michelle obama off the grid and said she will never run. what a bench. harris: they have the figure it out no matter what s coming down the road for them politically wow. joe concha. thank you. nancy pelosi is going back on her pledge to step back from leadership after next year s mid-terms. she said she would sit down. democrats are staring down a red wave and they know it in 2022. plus this. i asked the cbo to look at the bill to see if it had budget gimmicks. the bill on the floor is set up to cost 1.57 trillion based on