according to the cbo adds $3 trillion to the deficit. he doesn t want to vote for a bill that makes inflation will. one thing we haven t talked about tonight but was mentioned today, the childcare provisions in build back better prohibit religious institutions from receiving money. harris: just plain old facts there. senator lindsey graham. democrats reportedly prepared to miss their self-imposed deadline to pass president biden s massive social spending bill pushing it off into the new year. that s got to get complicated. can you imagine dealing with that in a mid-term year? a sticking point is a provision that will make childcare more affordable. republicans show that actually won t happen. it will actually do the opposite. aishah hosni is live for us at capitol hill to take us deeper into this issue. aishah. good morning. republicans are getting some
afford to pay a nanny or more expensive childcare options. dana: in the childcare provisions as i understand it. the bill is being changed and written as we speak. one of the requirements is going to be that any childcare provider have a four-year college degree and say if you are faith-based entity you don t get to have the subsidies. do you really think that will help solve the problem and get people back to work? will we be able to find enough workers to work in childcare with a four-year college degree? those are details we have to iron out, dana. i haven t seen those particular things. but we have to do something sensible to move the ball forward because we are coming out of a pandemic. we didn t go to school for this, dana. we re doing on the job training coming out of a pandemic but we ll come back out because americans will figure this out. good old american know how
everything we wanted in terms of childcare, the child tax credit but these are still issues that we are negotiating. we re not we re not done, yet. and so, i hope that you understand that everybody is working very hard to get this done. absolutely. no, absolutely. and i understand and you know, as i said the other day to someone, if you go from zero paid leave for businesses under 50 to four weeks, that is significant, right? that is significant. i understand you wanted a lot more than that and there will be some who see you getting a lot less as a failure. bru but i think that is important. but my question to you is do you feel like progressives, because every single thing has been you coming down or giving up, have been basically just asked to roll over and take whatever senator manchin and senator sinema want? no, i don t because we have been negotiating. we set forth our priorities. i mean, let me just call your attention to the issue of racial and gender equity. we wanted
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so this is, you say it s been good subsequently and politically, it s not been as good politically because we are not talking about it enough. democrats are always talking about the next package, we should be talking about the successes and extending those successes. because they are so important to so many families. you just mentioned childcare, i want to ask you there is a childcare provision of this legislation, there s a few different things from universal pre-k. the childcare provisions is sort of structured similarly to the aca sort of sliding scale subsidy payments for households that have kids under eastern amount of age. there is an analysis today by online some of the problems that the aca had witches folks that were just a little bit above that subsidization level finding themselves with a big expense.