pr progressives are saying let s wait a couple of weeks to vote on the infrastructure plan. and despite nancy pelosi s gamble to move ahead with the infrastructure vote, they will vote no. this is what a congressman told me earlier today. i am disappointed. don t have constructive words to describe my level of dismay that we would do this drill again. if the bif comes us to as a stand-alone vote separated from the build back better act, i m a hard no. so nancy pelosi is indicating she is not concerned about these warnings from her left saying that she is still going to put this bill on the floor. this is a rare gamble by the speaker. we ll see if she carries through with it but she typically does not go to the floor when she does not have the votes and the progressives are indicating they have 20. that s likely enough votes to scuttle this bill. we don t expect enough republicans to offset the losses from democratic votes. so we ll see how this ultimately
negotiations. let s pass the legislation and let s campaign on it. so, in a few moments, we ll be talking to kate bedingfield, their point of view on all of this and where it s going. donny, for pr progressives, we can get this all through. how can they brand this to brag on it? that s a great question as to where i was going. one of the problems with this bill, if you look at the bills throughout time we kind of said these are game changers, civil rights act, obamacare, healthcare, voting rights, they had a singular end benefit. a little bit of a problem here is there is not a focus. i thought how do i brand this thing? it s hard to in a bumper sticker and we are in a bumper sticker world to go out there, this is
from sinema or manchin. pr progressives have held the wire for this. they had none of that. the progressive votes will not be there. kevin mccarthy says he ll not let any republicans vote for this. she did not have the votes. can she bring it to the floor? yes, of course she can bring it to the floor. we have seen she s done that. to say pelosi promised the moderates to bring the bill for a vote this week, she can make a good promise and make it go down and turn them and say see guys this is what happens, if we