Work. So far, congressional republicans have not been unified by many things as strongly as their opposition to president biden s agenda. This morning, ohio republican senator roger portman said no to a democratic proposal in the bipartisan bill. It would have partially paid for the plant through irs reinforcement. One reason it s not part of the proposal is that we had pushback. Another reason is that we found out the democrats had a proposal in the reconciliation package which was not just similar to the one we had but with a lot more irs enforcement. That created quite a problem because in the general agreement, this is the bipartisan negotiation infrastructure package and we will stick with that. Some republicans say that they support the bipartisan infrastructure proposal. But are there enough to pass it? last night, oklahoma city mayor david holt who s republican, seems optimistic. There s something bigger here than just the package itself. There s an opportunity to pass somethin
Their bills in the committees, take them out to the senate floor. There s a lot of weeks involved, but the big deal, the huge deal is that bernie sanders got an agreement of all the budget community members, which really represents the whole senate in that way, and now he has his agreement extends to nancy pelosi, and as far as you can tell, every democratic member of the house. That s what we were talking about last night, is this just a small group in the senate, this budget committee who agrees, or do they go outside the committee, make sure nancy pelosi s on board, you know, obviously make sure chuck schumer is on board, the presidents on board, and the out they did that. Nancy pelosi was surprised last night to see what that agreement was. She was in line, everybody was in line. Bernie sanders did a masterful job to make sure everyone was in line before he brought this to the public spotlight. Lawrence, your irreplaceable. You can never quit your job, you can never do anything els
So you re saying you stand by your assessment in our impromptu interview last night in which you said this is closer to the end than the beginning despite my skeptical eyebrow raise. Well, technically it is one quarter of the way. If they pass the resolution, the full senate has to pass the resolution, the house has to do exactly the same thing. Then the resolution is just a promise in september, they will come back and do the socalled reconciliation to pass the bills within the committees, take that it out to the floor. The huge deal is that bernie sanders got an agreement of all the budget committee members which really represents the whole senate in that way. And now he has bernie sanders s agreement now extends to nancy pelosi and as far as we can tell, every democratic member of the house. So that s one of the things we were talking about last night. Is this just a small group in the budget committee that agrees? or did they go outside the committee, make sure nancy pelosi is on b
Speak. Democrats packed 3. 5 trillion of help into what would be the single biggest and most expensive bill ever passed through congress if, and that s a big if, they can get it passed. Want to bring in experts on this. Mike memoli at the white house, lee and caldwell on capitol hill, and white house correspondent eugene daniels, coauthor of the politico play book. Lee ann, start with you. This is the kind of spending bill that could break records. It has the child tax credit, free prek, expanded medicare benefits. The barbie dream house of improvements to the human condition, we all want to live in that barbie dream house, but how are we going to pay for it. That is one of the $3. 5 trillion questions, how this is going to be paid for. Democrats insist it will be fully paid for. They say that because there s a lot of moderates with anxiety about the price tag, including senator joe manchin who told me yesterday that is something that he wants, is to be fully paid for. However, he did
Where you are. It s literally within one or two miles any where you are in the united states. If everybody were to get vaccinated, the whole pandemic in the united states wour over, finished, kaput. And yet, we are struggling like a country that doesn t have the vaccine. We have the tools to end the pandemic. We are choosing to live with it because one political party, one large media network and certain forces have decided to come together and to propagate a conspiracy theory that is probably the most damaging conspirery theory in human history. You think of the number of lives that are going to be lost because of the crazy conspiracy theories about the covid vaccine. I don t think there is any precedent. We have never seen anything like that it, and we have never seen as many lives directly related to the falsehood and my information. You said, what science has given, politics seems to be taking away. Is this kind of political divide, when it comes to public health and misinformation