let s talk about a little timeline here, ali. what is realistic? and let us not forget, folks are going home, you ve got thanksgiving, you ve got christmas, it always feels like once you get into the election year, then their focus goes away from what actually is happening on the hill and how they get reelected. so is there any pressure in terms of a timeline? and are we going to see something today? well, look, they re pressure in terms of the timeline. jake and i are probably talking to the same lawmakers who are frustrated by how long this has taken. there are some who wanted to see a vote on this bipartisan infrastructure bill back two months ago. others of them on the senate side, i m thinking specifically of people like senator joe manchin who say they re okay if the second part of this process with the social spending package takes a little more time. there have been varying degrees of the desire to push forward at this on different paces. but for those who want to see
the congressional budget score, they ll have to wait. that s a holdup in the house. we re hearing that from senators. both the house and the senate are supposed to be gone next week. no one likes to cut short their recess especially when everybody has been working hard the last few weeks on negotiating this. but even if the house were to move forward on this, in the perfect world, what if they cleared both bills tonight? that still means that larger social spending package is going to sit in the senate for several weeks, because they have to do a congressional budget office score. they also have to go through that bird bath process, making sure all the different pieces of this actually follow the rules of being able to fit into the reconciliation process. that brings you closer to thanksgiving. it could even bring you after that, because that bill is going to look very different after it finishes in the senate. it s going to go back to the house. all of this stretches right into the ho
white house calls it human infrastructure. but the point the leadership and the white house, frankly, is making, is let s make some progress here, we ve been stuck at this for months. and there is something to that. they could pass this kind of procedural motion that will start the process. there are just a lot of moderates who are dug in and want to understand how much this package is going to cost before voting on it. and quite frankly, that doesn t seem like an absurd point of view. they only know a fraction of what the cost will be. they re not going to get the cost until the week of thanksgiving. but there s no deadline here. i mean, we re not working with a deadline. so i think those are the dynamics to consider. i wouldn t be surprised, chris, is my guess, and ali can hold me accountable to this in a few hours, that we will see a procedural vote and a vote perhaps on the infrastructure bill tonight. now, if they can t get a vote on the infrastructure bill, maybe they just do the