democrats last night ahead of the pivotal vote or votes there scheduled to take today. the really pivotal one we are waiting for them to take this hour. now, house speaker nancy pelosi has said she is holding a vote today on the small bipartisan roads and bridges bill that has already passed the senate. this is a little slice of president biden s agenda that was hived off from the main vote because they wanted to pass some piece of something with some piece of republican votes and this is the only piece of it that republicans would consent to support. progressives in the house say that they re only going to vote for that little bill if the centrists vote for the big bill too. they said, listen, we don t necessarily like the little bill. in fact, we think if it passes alone, it might make climate change worse. it is not our kind of thing. this is not what democrats were
would be for it. it would be important to do. it s a problem that needs to be solved. so the republicans rhetoric is meeting up with the electoral reality. but the problem is getting enough house members who feel like an incentive to do it back home. so many members are from deep red districts. the president has done something and that is to put it up as one big bill instead of chewable bites. that means the house might choke on it. so we e had the gang of eight. rubio is the shining star out of this. is he being boosted way up? absolutely. he s done more than talk. he s done something in washington, which is hard to do. and he went back on what he said less than two months ago. he told me at a politico breakfast he thought it would be smarter to do this in pieces, to build individual coalitions for the parts of the immigration bill. he s gone along with the big bill too. that makes it hard.