about it coming down to two fairly simple problems. they don t have a finished bill yet. the paid leave portion, the tax reduction portion, they don t have a finished bill or the votes, joeman manchin continues, and there is just not enough days left, so democrats are now conceding that build back better will happen next year. whether or not there can be another legislate i item, perhaps a voting rights push, is another question, but it won t be build back better. and we heard what the president said this morning, it didn t sound very confident about that christmas deadline,
they cannot give a real number to be gained from stepped up enforcement. best estimate is a footnote in this is about $200 billion. the treasury department said 400 in that gap you find this bill, $200 billion short of blg in the black. that wasn t a problem for house democrats. it may be a problem for senate democrats after all the promises of this bill being fully paid for. that said joe manchin and perhaps sinema may take a knife or an ax to this bill and cut some provisions. for example, the child stay-at-home credit paid leave why wow. staying up too late. the paid leave portion of the bill costs about $200 million. in f that comes out this bill is back in the black. that s to say much more negotiating to be done on the senate side after this