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Transcripts For CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell 20240709

on the $3.5 trillion human infrastructure plan as they call it. but there s an impasse between progressives and moderate democrats. progressives say they will not sign off on the bipartisan infrastructure deal unless the bigger social safety net bill comes with it and moderates don t like that. so, cnn s ryan nobles and lauren fox are on capitol hill to explain all of this to all of us. ryan, let s start with you. are they going to vote to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling in the house today? reporter: well, nothing is easy on capitol hill. i think we ve learned that, alisyn and victor, and even this process has not been easy. house democrats were prepared and are now prepared to pass this continuing resolution and the language that would lift the debt limit for more than a year, but ran into a snag earlier today because some house progressives were concerned that it included more than a billion dollars in funding for the iron dome security system for israel.

Transcripts For CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell 20240709

gets through the house and the senate? very little, in fact, there s virtually no chance it gets through both chambers. the house is scheduled to take a vote in just about an hour and a half or so, in order to raise the national debt limit and avoid a government shut down. that deadline to avoid a government shut down is september 30th, the end of the fiscal year. the deadline to avoid a first time ever default on the nation s debt is mid october. and there is no resolution to get out of either. democrats are trying to pair up those two issues. they will pass it out of the democratic controlled house today and then it will move to the senate where they need 60 votes to achieve that. democrats are insisting republicans must join them to raise the debt limit, given the debt that was accrued during the trump era. republicans say given the spending that occurred under the first nine months of the biden administration that it s up to democrats alone to do t and they re calling o

Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell 20210921 18:40:00

I don t know that, as we heard from the white house, that they make that distinction. let me ask you about all the other elements that are happening in the house. you re one of the nine democrats who speaker pelosi made a promise to, that on the 27th, there would be this vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. we re coming up on that. we have heard from the whip, congressman clyburn, that potentially, they re going to work toward that but maybe not make that deadline. first on timing, we ll get to the ultimatums later. will you accept a vote after september 27th and still support the larger reconciliation bill? well, let me put it the other way. the agreement was that we would have a vote on september 27th. i trust the word of speaker pelosi, jim clyburn, mr. hoyer, when we met with them. they said there would be a vote on that. if somebody wants a vote against then, the bipartisan bill, that it s historic to bring broadband

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Hiccups on the way, but at the end of the day, we are going to pass a biden administration agenda, one that will be balanced, one that will be supported by all 50 democrats in the house and the senate and by the democrats in the house. there will be some differences, i understand that. it seems like aun understatement, congressman. you calling their bluff or they re calling yours? well, look, i m not calling anybody s bluff. all i know is let s have a vote on the 27th and whoever wants to vote no, they can explain that vote. but i intend to vote yes on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. i definitely want to support a reconciliation. i was not in the room when somebody agreed to the $3.5 trillion. i want to focus not on the money but i want to focus on healthcare, education, what are we going to fund, because we want to remake the safety net of the united states. all right, congressman henry cuellar, thank you so much, sir.

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