the senate is expected to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill following months of negotiations. jillian: democrats are shifting their attention to pushing through a massive multi trillion dollar budget plan without republican support. lauren blanchard is live from washington with more. good morning, lauren. reporter: good morning. mid-morning the senate is expected to pass the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill with about 20 republicans on-board. $550 billion in new spending, for traditional items like bridges and roads, the electrical grid, railways, broadband, internet, public transit and electric vehicle infrastructure. some republicans stood against the bill for being too large. it will add $256 billion to the deficit. but before the ink is dry on this bill, democrats are eyeing a $3.5 trillion bill which they plan to pass you through reconciliation meaning they will not need a single republican vote to do so.
until sometime this fall. todd, jillian. todd: lauren, thank you very much. jillian: senator john kennedy says the bipartisan infrastructure bill alone is enough to hurt your wallet. take a listen. they told us this isn t going to add to inflation, but it is. i don t like to brag about all the expensive places i ve been but earlier today i went to the gas station. this bill s going to make it worse. it s going to make it worse for groceries too. and look, i m for infrastructure. i m just not for infrastructure at any cost. jillian: the congressional budget office said the bill would add to the nation fall deficit by at least $256 billion. turning to the pandemic. dr. anthony fauci taking heat for saying he hopes making kids wear a mask won t have a long-term impact on them as the back-to-school battle over mandates intensifies. .todd: jackie aban necessary
here s congressional correspondent chad pergram. one can always unearth controversial nuggets in any bill of this size. $125 million to potentially tax people based on how far they drive and language requiring car makers to install breathalyzers. mechanisms on cars that will not allow them to be driven if someone is over the limit. i don t know how that works. the bill heaps $256 billion on the debt. but supporters say it pays for itself by improving the movement of commerce. expect 50 democrats and 18 republicans to vote yes. you don t see the number of conservative republicans supporting this bill that you do unless it s fiscally responsible. but this bill is just the start. as democrats prep their own colossal $3.5 trillion bill focused on what they call human infrastructure. that is to address the long neglected needs of the working families of our country. republicans who brokered the
through new fees. and basically, deficit financing. and when you look at that, plus the 256 billion-dollar debt, and when you look at the fact that does not even count the money that they came up short in the outlier on this, you are talking about this is something too expensive to the board and there is no reason to say, august is here, we have got to pass this bill. we need to be more thoughtful. and we need to do a bill that is going to tend to the roads and rivers and runways and railways and broadband into it with the money that we have. do not go spending the money that her children and grandchildren are going to have to pay back. mortgaging their future, taking away their freedoms. so i am standing up for
governance. pete: amen. well said. we turn now to a live look at ap capitol hill where senators are resuming infrastructure talks today. mark meredith joins us live from washington with more. reporter: hey, pete, good morning. the senate s going to to be back in session this afternoon. lawmakers have been working through the weekend to move this bipartisan infrastructure bill forward. and while it appears it s still on track to pass, we don t [no audio] reporter: he says it s about jobs and also about building better energy transmission lines. he also says we can t afford not to do it. but the price tag is exactly what has tennessee republican senator bill hagerty so upset, the government estimating the proposal will add $256 billion