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structure bill for a month now after they reached an agreement on what they called the basic framework of that legislation. one month ago, in a meeting with president biden at the white house. there they are after that meeting up there in the white house driveway and now it s not unusual at all for it to take at least a month or more to figure out the details of such legislation after you ve established a general shape of it and then get all of that into precise legislative language. and after a weekend of work, it seems like today it might actually be the day that the bipartisan group could bring their bill to the senate floor through majority leader chuck schumer and begin debate. here is what the lead republican negotiator rob portman said yesterday. we re about 90% of the way there, with a legislative language and staff and i feel good about getting that on this week. we have one issue outstanding and we re not getting much response from the democrats and it s abo ....
stuck about how to pay for it. democrats want to finance the infrastructure plans by expanding the enforcement powers of the irs so that the agency can collect an additional $100 billion in unpaid taxes. republicans are not onboard with that plan. believe it or not. which would involve making rich people actually pay their fair share of taxes. senate majority leader chuck schumer says the senate will hold the vote on the bipartisan bill on wednesday. meaning that for the first time in a long time it could actually be infrastructure week in washington. your former president used to promise those regularly. meanwhile, senate democrats appear to be better poised to push forward the larger $3.5 trillion bill without republican support. in contrast to the bipartisan plan, this plan focuses on the country s human infrastructure. and party priorities like subsidized kid childcare. elder careo care. universal pre-kay and litany of climate initiatives. needing the support of all ....
how law enforcement is doing when it comes to bringing those involved to justice. first, search and rescue efforts expanded significantly in surfside, florida on monday after officials knocked down the rest of the partially collapsed condo. we re able to report that the search and rescue team has been able to search all sections of the grid on the collapse following the building demolition. now that the entire area is safe to search. and so the teams have now removed over 4.8 million pounds of concrete from the pile. four more bodies were discovered, raising the number of those killed officially to 28. 117 people remain unaccounted for. nearly two weeks after half of the champlain towers south condo collapsed in the middle of the night. search efforts were hampered throughout the day as thunderstorms and strong winds hit the area thanks to tropical storm elsa as it approached as it continued to approach the state. joining us now from surfside, correspondent vaug ....
the door to the oval office is always open. he ll be deeply engaged in the negotiations over the coming days. . meantime, vice president kamala harris and labor secretary marty walsh went to pittsburgh to promote the extended child tax credit included in the covid-19 relief package passed earlier this year. the vice president talking about the importance of the monthly payments set to begin on july 15th. we want to make sure that we are actually helping families, right? and that means taking some of the pressure off of those monthly if not daily responsibilities. we re also following another big decision from the supreme court. the justices ruled that ncaa broke antitrust laws when it blocked some education related aid for student athletes. such as, you know, money for post graduate scholarships tutoring and paid internships. we ll have more later in the hour. of but we re going to begin this hour with the very latest from if washington, d.c. joining us now, nbc ....
local law enforcement officials say the surge is stretching them thin and border patrol agents telling fox news they caught multiple groups of migrants in the area just today. bill we are live on the border in texas, bill? reporter: yeah, jon, good evening it would appear from our perspective that migrants either didn t hear or just flat out don t care about vice president kamala harris recent message to them, which was do not come here to the border. they are still coming, and they are coming in large numbers all over the place, including right here, in the rio grande valley sector, where we are. we ll show you some of the activity we witnessed just this morning alone. take a look at this video from this morning here this in la joy a. they pinned down a group of runners that crossed the rio grande, entered the united states illegally and was running away from border patrol, not turning themselves in. our drone was over them as they were eventually apprehended by borde ....