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♪. ♪. rachel: fox news alert. showdown in the senate. lawmakers engaged in a vote-a-rama all night long over dozen of politically charged issues. will: live look at senate floor. senators continue to argue whether the inflation reduction act will do anything to help ease inflation. joey: alexandria hoff live in washington with the latest? reporter: this vote-a-rama is part of the senate budget process where senators allow unlimited amendments. senator graham opposed a amendment by ...

Means, people understand the pettiness on the senate. this entire bill can be voted on 51 votes because each line item on the rule has revenue attached to it. that is the byrd rule. well reconcile the budget. that is why they can pass it with 51. the reason why the vote-a-rama, republicans have ability to attach unlimited amendments. they submit to the congressional budget, they get a are score, this can be paid for, no it doesnt cost more money. they can submit for 51 vote approval. democrats e...

On capitol hill for us. thank you so much, daniela. >> its so interesting the position hes taken on the child tax credit. the enhanced child tax credit reaches 93% of children in west virginia, more than 346,000 children in west virginia. >> the children in his home st state. >> his home state. families with children got a tax cut. you take away the tax cut youre raising taxes on these families. its a popular provision. hes concerned about the hypothetical budget score. well see. well see if he ...

Earning 70,$000 a year, living and getting the job done in what we all call high-priority or essential work. the other thing i would say to get to the budget score, they only funded some of these for a couple years, extended child tax credit for one year. some of the tax credits for the aca premiums, the childcare theyve been talking about and raving about, what are they going to do when these run out? if they plan on rehabbing them the score is wrong. the other thing is they are hiring 87,000 i...

Booster shot yesterday. i guess we ought to tip our cap that hes still standing at this point. we do expect the democrats to get the vote done. it will be a few hours from now, later than they want, but theyll do it in the light of day. walk us through the budget score. a lot said we want to make sure we wait for that so its okay. walk us through it now. it seems like a big number but one they can live with. >> absolutely. they were hoping they could pass the infrastructure bill a few weeks ag...

Senators who had been wanting this to pass from other lawmakers and institutions who have been lobbying for different aspects of this bill, because this is a win for democrats. it shows that you heard on the floor there, come after hours and weeks of hard deliberations and negotiations. poly at sea items that were important for progressives falling by the wayside in iterations of this bill, only to be to revive them brought back in. moderates having their arms twisted so theyd be moved to vote o...

The congressional budget score, theyll have to wait. thats a holdup in the house. were hearing that from senators. both the house and the senate are supposed to be gone next week. no one likes to cut short their recess especially when everybody has been working hard the last few weeks on negotiating this. but even if the house were to move forward on this, in the perfect world, what if they cleared both bills tonight? that still means that larger social spending package is going to sit in the se...

>> how speaker nancy pelosi in the meantime is still hopeful for a vote on both of these bills at least in the house this week but moderates may throw a wrench in that plan, too. she want a congressional budget score, the true cost of the social spending plan. they want that before they vote on this. there is no way they can get that in time for a vote to take place this week. certain pieces of this bill arent even done yet. bill, white house press secretary jen psaki came out with a statement a...

More effective for these families to get 300 a month. you could budget it in like income in a way. >> there are a number of things in the democratic proposal that would be game changing. you say its wildly popular. the question is can the democrats figure out the math to make it happen? >> i think the challenge for the democrats is their eyes are bigger than their stomach. even the $3.5 trillion for the total amount of their spending and tax cuts. they have wildly exceeded that box they have pla...