On president joe bidens agenda. A vaccine deadline. The white house sets a date for workers at Large Companies to be vaccinated or get tested weekly. Some states are preparing to fight it. And the trial of three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man, begins in a matter of hours. Announcer live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. After months of haggling over u. S. President joe biden spending plans, could today be the day House Democrats finally get it done . Leaders say the house will vote on both the build back better plan and the Infrastructure Bill today. A handful of moderate democrats had been refusing to move forward without clear estimates of what this is going to cost. U. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isnt it forward with funding. The increase would be 5 trillion over ten years, not including Additional Savings from Prescription Pricing and enforcement. She goes on to say, the white house has provided us with a preliminary budget
Lockdown the votes. Tuesdays election served as a wake up call to give progressives and moderates the push to get on the same page. I believe were going to work both these out. Weve been all working very closely together. And everyone is acting in good faith and well get these across the finish line. But i think the country wants to see action. They deserve it. They want us to produce common sense results, you know, for them and for families. This election on tuesday showed us how seriously we have to take these issues, these pocketbook issues, and the reality is the build back better act is going to reduce costs for poor families and working families. 7b there are issues, of course, that remain unresolved. House democrats have worked out one of the sticking points, how to divvy upstate and local taxes. Deductions will be capped at 80,000 per year over nine years. It is an approach that devers from key senators like bernie sanders, but a big step closer to the finish line. Cnns jessica
Good morning to viewers here in the United States and around the world. It is friday, november 5th, and i am Brianna Keilar along with john berman. It is decision day for democrats on capitol hill or it could be. It is supposed to be. Will this finally be the day the party can get enough votes for the president s build back better plan and the Infrastructure Bill. House democrats will reconvene on the floor to debate and vote on both pieces of legislation. In the past, they have failed to meet these selfimposed deadlines to get the president s domestic agenda across the line in the house. But after weeks and months of infighting between moderates and progressives, Democratic Leadership in the house feel confident this is going to get done today. They at least say they are confident. They probably want to get off the Hamster Wheel theyve been on. Lets find out where they stand. Sunlen serfaty live on capitol hill. Is this really the day, sunlen . Reporter that certainly is the big quest
Them. The scientists, people who labored for year on these approaches. They are sad, frustrated and exasperated even that the a lot everyone. A lot of our country have embraced the vaccines but not everyone has. Hopefully they will still come around. We need them to get on board. I want to circle back to Breaking News again. You write about the development of the vaccine itself, people still need to get vaccinated. Vaccinations can prevent you from getting it to begin with. But the idea of a pill for once you do get it, the treatment, how is that important in stabilizing the future and helping us move forward. I know you think, for instance, that covid is not going to go away but become endemic. That is exactly right. Were stuck with this thing. Long term, it will be endemic. There will be people that isnt going to crop up. We are working on second and third generation. Go to your Doctors Office and you get a combined covid with flu and maybe Something Else into one vaccine. What these
That than we have ever seen them. Months of fighting have led to this hour as houses democrats reconvene on the floor to debate and potentially they they think will vote on both pieces of legislation here. As brianna said, House Leadership says it feels confident about the fact they will vote on this today. I think we sort of heard that before. They mostly probably feel anxious about getting this through, getting it done funlly so they can move on to other things. We know President Biden called House Members overnight in an effort to help get support. Lets go to Sunlen Serfaty live on capitol hill. What do we know is happening, sunlen. Reporter the House Gavelled in the last few seconds here and this sets up potentially a huge day for democrats and the biden white house. Democratic leaders are projecting confidence going into today, saying there will be a vote, both on the social spending bill, and the Infrastructure Bill. But certainly they will be sweating out each and every minute o