comes up about $300 billion short. there is a reason why they want to run the bill through without having a congressional budget office tell you how much it costs. there are gimmicks behind this. one of those so-called budgetary gimmicks is sun setting programs, having expire after a few years to keep the price down. penn wharton says the real cost is programs are made permanent is over $4 trillion. now the joint committee on taxation did release their estimate. they say the bill over 10 years is paid for. but for the first five years the new tax hikes that some impact middle class those in the middle class and small businesses do not cover the new government spending over that time, which means biden would have to borrow billions to build back better. bret? bret: hillary vaughn live on the hill. hillary, thanks. we are told the progressives are still meeting. there have been phone calls with
they are long-standing crises that existed well before this pandemic. and their industries that we know have a direct impact on our baseline economy as well. so i just can t agree that there is something that deserves to be on the chopping block here. i think the reality as we heard from speaker pelosi, yes, there are difficult decisions ahead. it sounds like she is now leaning towards sun setting programs sooner that it originally anticipated. which we know would transfer with progressives. and i will say it s something progressives are the only one in this moment who are recognizing that they need to deliver what democrats promised. voters elected democrats for a prop respective of a better. like a tangible possible increased is into the quality of being. and failure to deliver that is absolutely going to have a negative impact on the democrats of the pole. what we heard from progressives tonight at the progressive town hall, where senator sanders, representative jayapal, and preside