Of you from Msnbc Roe Headquarters here in new york. Welcome everyone to alex witt reports. We are beginning with this Breaking News. Hundreds on capitol hill as the federal government heads towards a, potential, shut down in just 12 hours. Soon the house will vote on speaker Kevin Mccarthys new plan to keep Government Open. We see those votes being cast, in fact, as we speak. However, mccarthy is leaning on democrats to support it admitting that there is no guarantee that his own caucus would do it. The house is going to actually government will not shut down. We will put a clean Funding Stopgap on the florida keep Government Open for 45 days did you get any assurances from any of the republicans about this . No, i have tried. Well, a senate vote is also expected to get underway in the next hour. The impact of a potential shutdown will be felt foreign right across nonessential federal agcies. For almost 4 million employees and military, it would mean working without pay. Here is part
the husband of vice president kamala harris doug emhoff has tested positive for covid-19. emhoff, the second gentleman, tweeted his symptoms are mild and said he is grateful to be vaccinated and boosted. a white house aide said the vice president has tested negative since her husband s result. of course, she s still in the window where that could change. she backed out of a white house event yesterday evening out of abundance of caution. earlier in the day she did appear with president biden and several democratic leaders including speaker pelosi and speaker schumer. nine white house democrats have tested positive. after democrats gathered at a party in philadelphia where few masks were seen. we ll have much more on the alarming rise of covid cases in europe and some signs here in the united states when i m
speaker nancy pelosi s office and this is how she responded to joe manchin s top line number. can that be done with a $1.5 trillion reconciliation package? well, look, there s no number. i don t have a number. i don t have a number. that s the number that manchin that s what he tells you. that s not what ultimately is going to be the package. that s what he told speaker schumer. i don t have an offer in front of me. my number is $3.5 trillion. you don t negotiate against you yourself. if you go to buy a house, you don t put down an offer and then suddenly say, okay, i m willing to go down another $100,000. anybody done that? i don t think so. that s not how he negotiate. what you hear the congresswoman say is they re not negotiating directly. it s being done through the white house and also being done through the leadership and the house and senate and so either side is really unmoved in this process, and that means that this vote that s supposed to take place today on
the floor. speaker speaker schumer said they want to dot more. how big are democrats willing to go. he said as peter pointed out some members wan wanted more thanes 3ds.5 million and heard joe manchin say $3.5 million is too much. another thing schumer said in a press conference, did knoll rule out coming below that if he has to, if that s what it takes to get all of his members together pap very complicated dance he and house speaker nancy pelosi are starting on, and we also were just told, two democrat sources on a conference call with speaker pelosi, she doubled down on her timeline of passing these two infrastructure bills. she is going to hold off on this