spending. he says he thinks the answer is to pass his social spending package, the build back better bill. he says it could be awhile before it happens. he said he s open to chopping the package up and trying to pass it piece by piece. he says he still needs the votes. he wasn t necessarily dictating what the size would look like. he wants to get as much as big of a chunk as we can get done and through congress. he also recognizes that nothing will get done without 50 votes. so we re not confronting the choice between what can happen in our ideal. on the economy, president biden did have something to brag about yesterday. including record job creation in year one, a holiday supply chain crisis that he says he successfully avoided and those bare shelves on tv, he says they re not as bad as you think. saying shelves across the country are stocked 89%. he did say people are paying more at the meat counter and gas