a second term. so what extent that factors in to the white house, we don t know. it s clearly in the either. neil: i get a read from a lot of moderate democrats are not keen on the bigger spending package, not the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure package. the better part of valor might be to lose it and just stake your claim on getting the infrastructure-only package through. that is so controversial. it could make this inflation situation worse. that might get past their legislative skis here, but what did you make of that? well, maybe not lose it but delay it. we have news that just broke here where you have five house moderates, murphy, gottheimer, names that you re aware of, house centrists saying they will not vote nor the big package, the $2 trillion package, 1.75
what if it s not a puzzle, what if they just don t care about his agenda? so we are seeing some movement from joe manchin. sinema, a little less. manchin is saying he wants to undo the 2017 tax cuts that republicans passed, that s what he wants to start with. that s kind of his opening salvo right now to the white house. but, yeah, don, there is a lot that they have not told the president, which is why biden is really pushing them to just give him a number, whether it s a top line or tell him what exactly they can live with in this package. because biden is betting that if he can figure it out with manchin and sinema, that the house centrists, there s a handful of them that also aren t on board with the social spending package right now, that they ll follow manchin and sinema, and then he can go to progressives with this really detailed framework and get them to support the bipartisan infrastructure package.
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into this new week and that we will pass not just the john lewis voting rights act but also a budget reconciliation bill so we can begin the hard work of drafting our own package over here in the house. now, you went exactly what i want to ask. there are nine house centrists who are threatening to hold up the passage of the budget. they are insisting the house pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill first. before moving on to the democrat-only reconciliation package. we know your house speaker is moving towards approving the spending plan without a republican vote. do you agree with your leader s plan given the narrow divide within your party right now? well, i want to be clear that it is not a moderate position to oppose medicare expansion, which is supported by 90% of the american people. i m thinking now of my grandmother, who had to work well past the age of retirement because she couldn t afford to pay for medical procedures not
flexibility so they can bring costs down. if we don t change anything, healthcare costs will continue to skyrocket. with that provision has raised concern among house centrists. macarthur said they need to turn 16 votes. the white house seems to think it will happen. that s what reince priebus told bret baier. how will it fare in the senate where there is a greater degree of opposition and not as high of a majority among republicans to get this done. shannon: another topic this morning the president tweeting about nafta. bill: firing up the old twitter machine diving into the nafta issue. he tweeted i received calls from the president of mexico and the prime minister of canada asking to renegotiate nafta rather than terminate. i agreed. in the second tweet subject to