pipe replacement. the president is spoke using on the thing today tweeting one in five miles of our highways and 45,000 bridges are in poor condition. it is dangerous. the bipartisan infrastructure deal will change that. republicans are warning of inflation ahead if democrats tack trillions onto this bill. today s vote doesn t signal the end of the process. the tragedy is that democrats want to inflict all this pain on middle class families. here is the comedy. they won t let republicans have any say in this monstrosity but they want our help raising their credit card to make it happen. president biden aboard marine one now expected to touchdown on the south lawn shortly before this vote that democrats in congress are hoping will give him the okay to spend a few trillion
he met her at the reception and in front of dozens of people he joked with her. he did a dance pose. he meant no disrespect. he was thinking, you can say whether it s right or whether it s wrong, that this was fun. and that he was trying to be playful. and as we now know, it doesn t always work out that way. and the governor knows that. and appreciates that. and during the time that she worked for him, he did banter with her. he did ask her about her life. that s something he routinely does with his staff members. what s going on? are you married? do you have kids? are you dating anybody? that s something senator schumer asks his staff. it s normal when you are working closely with people in
0 how about this boy? he is only a toddler. look at his golf swing. is it perfection? bill: that s good. what do you think? 2 years old? dana: wearing a diaper. he is out there let me hit this for you, dad. you think dad is proud? real proud. all right. here is harris faulkner. harris: we beginning with breaking news. senate democrats are ready to move forward with their multi-trillion legislative agenda and your tax money, of course, is on the line. i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus . moments from this moment the senate will vote on a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that appears to have enough republican votes to pass as well. once that wraps up schumer will open debate on a 3 1/2 trillion budget resolution. first on the docket is that infrastructure bill. we scroll because it s a doozy of cash. though it has some gop support, critics still have a lot to say about what is actually in the fine print. here are senators john kennedy, mike lee, marsha bl
again is more procedural than anything else but the procedure is not looking good for democrats who had hoped to get past this hurdle and get the process going. it ain t going right now. to chad pergram on capitol hill with what this means. hi, chad. good afternoon, neil. today s vote doesn t mean that infrastructure is dead. it means that the senate can t is that right debate on the bipartisan infrastructure bill just yet. the vote just a few minutes ago concluded. 49 yays, 51 nays. they needed 60 votes. the senate majority leader chuck schumer switched his vote at the end to recall this vote on the future. he voted nay. you have to be on the prevailing side to recall the vote, which is what is going to happen sometime down the future here. that s why he switched his vote and was a ney. the neys were the prevailing side today. schumer says he s ready to incorporate the bipartisan bill in the larger $3.5 trillion democratic infrastructure package once it s ready.
ultra rich. i m straightforward neil: isn t this a bigger problem for republicans and something that i discussed with senator john thune and leadership in the senate, this attaching of this other measure, the far more expensive one for republicans is a no-go and that suddenly keeps coming up again even though the president himself has said one isn t linked to the other. it clearly is. not so much in time issue here but in priority. i m just wondering if that is a mistake. if you can live with infrastructure only, get that settled, the revenue, the stuff you alluded to and down the road address this larger measure. i think the speaker is right to have them come at the same time. she s concerned if we have the bipartisan deal that we will never get the other deal. i votes all the time neil: part deal is better than no deal at all, right? sure. i m not convinced you d get the bipartisan deal. that s what s killing it. we all vote on legislation.