deadlines so they can blow by them without any repercussions. but democrats do want to get this done pretty early on next year because once it starts getting closer to the midterms, the politics get a little bit more tricky. olivia, what do you see the landscape to be particularly for the white house who wants to meet that deadline, but they can change the deadline whenever they want to, but then there s really capital spent in doing that. i think melanie hit it on the nose. they would love to have this passed before leave for the holidays. but deadlines are meant fob broken, we saw it repeatedly with infrastructure and even with the house voting to pass the reconciliation bill. so, whether they do stick to this time line that they have set and have privately suggested it would be next week, we ll see. we re not going to call where it lands at this point. all right, olivia and melanie, good to see you both, thank you so much.
making comments like you saw with lauren boebert or making decisions like you saw with paul gosar. and it s a pattern that mccarthy will have to deal with. and the question is whether he decides to deal with it differently if he ends up becoming speaker. and then, meanwhile, melanie, back in the senate, the clock is ticking for the democrats to pass the president s build back better legislation before christmas. that was their kind of self-imposed design. is it going to happen? there are serious doubts about that time line. there s only a few weeks left on the legislative calendar before the end of the year. they also have to deal with the debt ceiling which eats up time on the floor in the senate. and manchin and others are demanding pretty significant changes to the bill. so that process is also going to take time. and once they finally do make changes that gets everyone on board, then they have to get a cost estimate, which as we know we saw on the house side that can take a whi
comments or decisions, and then it consumes the party. and mccarthy leader mccarthy tends to take the approach where he is silent, he tries to deal with it behind closed doors saying you need to apologize or issue a statement. we saw it previously with paul gosar who ended up being kicked off his committee and censored by house democrats. when this happens it s essentially a huge headache, and they are becoming increasingly the faces where they are pushing the buttons and attracting controversy. and that is not the position that most of the republican conference wants to be in, is responding to comments like you saw lauren boebert making previously. so, it s certainly kind of a conundrum and a problem for the party that we re probably going to keep seeing going forward especially as i look to retake the majority in the next midterm elections. melanie, if the house minority leader, mccarthy, is not going to, you know, condemn it more vociferously, how about
there are some members of the republican house caucus, nancy mace, tom reid, adam kinzinger and fred upton have kwon developed the remarks, but that s four out of hundreds. and they are being attacked. they are being attacked. for? for condemning it which tells you that the conference condoness this and that s why it s dangerous. let s talk further about all this. melanie sew anona is a capitol hill reporter and a political reporter from politico joins us as well. thanks for being here, ladies. you heard congresswoman omar saying this is who they are. are the voices of fringe voices influence in the gop this is certainly a participant that we ve been seeing in recent weeks and this year as a whole, which is that there are certain members who keep on having controversial