i can make a rustic cabin feel modern. i am a guidebook for guests. i can make an indoorsy person, outdoorsy. i give families a home, not just a place to stay. i am a vrbo host. let s try to get details and perspective on the big announce president, at least they framed it it is a big announcement last hour from the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, democratic leader of the house. congresswoman, grateful for your time today. do you have an understanding what have leader schumer and speaker pelosi were talking about today when they said they have a framework on how to pay what the ultimate package is.
why won t you answer the question? what should it be. i did answer the question to the president and i said what s important to us as new dems is what are the investments we re making. people will definitely support higher numbers as we make sure those investments really make a huge difference for the communities and the substance and the child tax credit and our priorities as new dems, making sure we continue the child tax credit that is getting resources out to families, a middle class tax cut, making sure people have health care and we continue the premium subsidies for the aca and we address medicaid expansion in states that didn t expand. critical priorities, climate. those those investments and the return on those investments will drive so the number has been a distraction. we want to make big, bold transformative investments, but i think the way you get people on board for that number you is tell them what you re going to do and why that spending is going have such an import
agreement on a framework that will pay for any final negotiated agreement, so the revenue side of this we have an agreement on, okay? thank you. the framework, an agreement of a framework. that sounds like a big deal, right? but there are a lot of missing pieces. no specifics yet, for example, on just what tax hike democrats have agreed to support and even more important, no agreement yet on how much money democrats need to raise meaning no agreement yet on the final price tag for that big democratic plan. let s get straight up to our chief congressional correspondent manu raju. manu, they make this announcement out to be a big deal, but a lot of questions. reporter: there are a lot of questions and not a lot of clarity. let s be clear. members have not signed off on this in the rank and file. even some of the key chairmen of the committees are still in the dark about what exactly this means and what this means is an agreement about some of the