the meeting comes as house speaker nancy pelosi sets october 31st as another new deadline for the house to pass the smaller, $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. that is the one that focuses on bridges and roads and such. that deadline also marks when the 30-day reauthorization of the federal highway program expires. pelosi wrote in a letter to her colleagues that the bipartisan framework must be passed well before that date to save people s jobs. the decision to delay the vote has already angered moderates in the party who wanted to pass the bipartisan bill on its own last week. however, progressives, which is a much bigger group of democrats all but ensured the vote would fail unless the $3.5 trillion package democrats are seeking to push through budget reconciliation could be passed at the same time. one of the so-called moderate democratic holdouts arizona senator kyrsten sinema issued this scathing statement calling their efforts quote an ineffective stunt to ga
Msnbc news science analyst and best selling author of the coming plague and betrayal of trust the collapse of global public health. don t go anywhere. we re just getting started this sunday morning. in a few moments u.s. senator mazie hirono joins the conversation and we have a lot to talk about including the intraparty spending fight and another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning to you. today is sunday, october 3rd. i m ali velshi. under the previous dysfunctional administration it seemed infrastructure week would never get done. now we have an infrastructure week that seemingly doesn t end. i ll tell you why that is a good thing. this week president biden is scheduled to host congressional lawmakers at the white house as democrats resume negotiations over how to pass two cornerstone pieces of his economic agenda.