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Until sometime this fall. todd, jillian. todd: lauren, thank you very much. jillian: senator john kennedy says the bipartisan infrastructure bill alone is enough to hurt your wallet. take a listen. >> they told us this isnt going to add to inflation, but it is. i dont like to brag about all the expensive places ive been but earlier today i went to the gas station. this bills going to make it worse. its going to make it worse for groceries too. and look, im for infrastructure. im just not for inf...

Heres congressional correspondent chad pergram. >> one can always unearth controversial nuggets in any bill of this size. $125 million to potentially tax people based on how far they drive and language requiring car makers to install breathalyzers. >> mechanisms on cars that will not allow them to be driven if someone is over the limit. i dont know how that works. >> the bill heaps $256 billion on the debt. but supporters say it pays for itself by improving the movement of commerce. expect 50 de...

Through new fees. and basically, deficit financing. and when you look at that, plus the 256 billion-dollar debt, and when you look at the fact that does not even count the money that they came up short in the outlier on this, you are talking about this is something too expensive to the board and there is no reason to say, august is here, we have got to pass this bill. we need to be more thoughtful. and we need to do a bill that is going to tend to the roads and rivers and runways and railways an...

Governance. pete: amen. well said. we turn now to a live look at ap capitol hill where senators are resuming infrastructure talks today. mark meredith joins us live from washington with more. >> reporter: hey, pete, good morning. the senates going to to be back in session this afternoon. lawmakers have been working through the weekend to move this bipartisan infrastructure bill forward. and while it appears its still on track to pass, we dont -- [no audio] >> reporter: he says its about jobs and...

Neil: what the heck does anything having to do with cryptocurrency have to do with infrastructure? >> the idea this is a pay for. it raises about $28 billion in revenue, something that theyre very concerned about when they got this report back from the cbo saying it put them in the hole to the tune of $256 billion and knowing they will have a bigger bill, the democrats are, 3.5 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. all about the math. i often talk about the math on the vote count, this is the mat...

Last-minute objections may leave lawmakers stranded into their august recess. lauren blanchard joins us. >> in an hour and a half, a procedural vote to break the filibuster. that will allow senators to move forward on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. at least 10 republicans need to join democrats to pass the bill. the labor department announcing 943,000 jobs are added in july. the unemployment rate fell to 5.4%, both numbers beating expectations and giving some republicans a reason to critici...

Office revealed to us. >> to forge a deal then. >> youve been trying to vote on amendments all day, but encountered numerous objections from the other side. >> the bill adds $256 billion to the deficit, but some g.o.p. members will vote yes. >> im very comfortable with the-- an asset infrastructure has the movement of goods and services in our economy, its an asset that returns value to our economy and ultimately to the taxpayers. >> now, you need 60 votes to crack a filibuster and theres behind...

Financing the bill. the digital-currency lobby objected to language that this would have expanded the tax burden on certain intermediaries. but its not just these technical amendments holding up the bill. the nonpartisan congressional budget office came out with an estimate, on thursday, which projected that the deal would balloon the deficit by 256 billion over a decade. that contradicts the claim which was always suspect and relied on some kind of creative accounting to suggest that this bill ...

Including about $550 billion in new spending for things like roads, bridges, public transport. also, broadband, as a matter of fact. but at this stage there is a possibility of a snag as there always is. one of the snags, of course, is that if all democrats come along on this bill, theyll still need 10 republican votes in order to get to the point where they will actually take up this bill and tee bait it. one of the other big problems, of course, is the trump people here on capitol hill. many s...

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