vote on a short term funding bill that will keep the lights on through early december. they have to sign off on the bill before sending it to president biden for signature. that vote expected in about 30 minutes. a house vote on the trillion dollar infrastructure roads and bridges bill. it depends on the intense negotiations. the bill could have been $3.5 trillion will almost certainly not be that high. in the past hours, speaker pelosi met with moderates and progressives. and senator joe manchin, one of two key moderates at the center of the fire storm confirmed what he wants the bigger bill to look like. nbc news capitol hill team is talking with all of them, going to bring you that. bundle up. it will be busy the next 59 minutes. i want to bring in ligh ann caldwell. shannon pettypiece, and tony ropp, and john bresnahan. let me give a caveat to viewers before we start. we re not sure what the next 60 minutes may entail. members of congress are supposed to come to the set,
expanded medicaid, and measures to combat climate change which house speaker nancy pelosi says is just not ready for a vote yet even though she had previously promised the two deals would be linked. that test standoff at this hour. speaker pelosi saying she s still shooting for a vote on infrastructure sometime today even though there is a little bit of doubt it has votes to pass. let me remind everybody how wildly popular both measures are among all voters. in a recent pew poll, supporters have a 31-point advantage over opponents. a poll from show nearly two thirds of likely voters support the legislation. over at fox news their numbers show 62% of all voters support this infrastructure bill. also the vast majority of americans support the so-called social spending bill that progressives rallied around as well. the new york times writes this about it, quote, the president and top democrats appeared as far as ever from an agreement but there is a darker reality looming th
Earlier this afternoon following days of gridlock with republicans threatening to shut down the government in the middle of a pandemic by refusing to raise the debt limit. republicans still have not budged on that. but at least they have daned to pass a temporary pressure to keep the government open at least for the next two months. we will stay on it. the real news this weekend. president trump s dangels like a political opinion yachta at the mercy of today s dysfunctional washington, d.c. the senate passed the popular legislation after moderate democrats worked with republicans to make a deal. but now the day that it s supposed to be put to a vote it s up against a massive road bloc from progressive democrats in the white house who say they will refuse to vote on it unless they are promised an agreement on a separate $3.5 trillion spending package that will fund another central part of president biden s agenda. things like universal pre-k,