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a akuhn. griff: i m griff jenkins. they re hoping to keep legislation that would transform government as we know it. let s go to mark meredith at the white house. griff, as you mentioned, it s it s been a whoo wild few days on capitol hill yet, the president is sure his agenda is going to get through congress. at issue, one the bipartisan infrastructure agreement that republicans for the most part are going to support and a much larger social safety net bill with moderate democrats saying they do not want to spend the massive amount that progressives want to spend and what they ll be willing to spend to get the goals achieved and we asked what comes next. he said this is messy and it s part of the way that washington works. i m a realist. i think that, i was in the senate a long timement i know how legislation gets done. there is no reason why both these bills couldn t pass independently, except that, they re not supposed to do it that way. got to have the votes. ....
failing to see eye to eye on president biden s massive social spending plan with two senate moderate saying $3.5 trillion price tag needs to be cut down drastically. the president wants their support but liberal house democrats say bipartisan infrastructure bill cannot move forward unless the senate passes the larger spending package. meredith has more on all of this mark, tell us more. it s good job security here from washington news coming out of d.c. good afternoon. president biden said he remains confident eventually democrats are going to get on the same page get around to passing to massive spending bills but when might that happen? product the president had a chance to go up to capitol hill to encourage democrats to keep negotiating but the party is ending this week split between moderates and progressives. two key senators say they are not going to support spending three and a half trillion dollars on a social safety net but progressives in the house six they ....
we have fox team coverage. north carolina republican congressman will join us to weigh in on this in a few minutes. but we begin tonight with mark meredith, live at the white house. good evening, jon. president biden says he s convinced that congress will eventually get around to passing his economic agenda. after a wild week at capitol hill, not even some democrats are convinced it is going to happen. the president went up to the hill on friday to get a chance to convince some of these lawmakers to vote his way. he wants moderates and progressives to make a deal and pass a massive spending bill that would expand the government s safety net programs. progressives are refusing to go along with that effort to also address the infrastructure bill, that is, until they also talk about a lot more money for this safety net program. we asked the president today if and when a final deal can ever be reached. do you think by thanksgiving, sir? do you think this could all be do ....
i m erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of outfront. because tonight, we celebrate ten years on the air right here on cnn. and we re glad to be here. we begin tonight with breaking news. no deal. president biden returning to the white house this evening without an agreement to save his first-term domestic agenda. the president paying a rare visit to capitol hill to try to move the ball with his own party. urging democrats to support his $1.2 t $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. while trying to salvage his mass massive spending bill. house speaker nancy pelosi promised that vote last night. it didn t happen. so then, there was talk of a vote tonight but that also as i speak seems quite unlikely. and now, biden is signaling that they could be stalled for evening lodge longer. i m telling you we are going to get this done. it doesn t matter when. it doesn t matter whether it s in six minutes, six days or six weeks. we re going to get it done. to say t ....
that s really not surprising. the bill is one of the biggest in all of human history, nearly 2,500 pages long. it spans $3.5 trillion. where does that money come from? it was just newly printed by the federal reserve for the occasion. the provision in question was hidden on page 168 of that bill. here s what it says. going forward the federal government will bankrupt any company that refuses to comply with joe biden s vaccine mandate. do you have an unvaccinated worker in your office? the fine for that will be $700,000 payable to the u.s. treasury for each and every one of those workers. even by the standards of washington, that is a lot of money. here s a comparison. in june the federal government penalizing chemical company in west virginia after its plant exploded killing an employee and sending two others to the hospital. the fine in that case, $12,288. there you have it. written out in black and white. the moral priorities of the democratic party. killing people in ....