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Time frame, or they could actually cut and pull some things out of the package, and that seems to be what the ongoing internal deliberations are between house progressives and house moderates and then of course those two key senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, who have balked at the hefty price tag that this bill contains. and this is also a part of the messaging strategy, of course, for the biden white house, because there is concern that theres been too much focus on the price tag and no...

More in the bill. more of those proposals in the bill. say instead of ten-year funding, go down to five-year or even three-year. that would reduce the cost dramatically. it sounds like a house progressives are in lock step on this strategy, but where does the white house stand? >> i first floated that on your show and turns out a lot of colleagues agree. we can deliver for the american people, make sure that theyre getting the benefits and childcare, making sure theyre getting the benefits of de...

His massive spending plan with the price tag remaining the huge sticking point at this point. >> john: progressives calling for $3.5 trillion in spending but moderate say they want to package that costs less than half of that and a key biden ally said it could fall somewhere in between. around $2 trillion. >> sandra: jacqui heinrich is here with the latest from the white house to kick things off, hey. >> good afternoon to both of you guys. chris coons said publicly what we have known through our...

Fixed the technical problem. sanders said i could listen things up, i want the medicare reform and single-payer health care, 50-50 senate, come my way, i wont do it. im part of a family, i have to compromise. come on, manchin. >> thats exactly the point hes been making publicly and privately and the question is can they get together? mean, they need every single member of the democratic caucus because one of them can scuttle this. this is what the real concern is among democrats because the beli...

Republicans, and warned he would not cooperate in the future, well see if that happens. nevertheless, didnt go over well particularly with republicans. >> staying with senator man chin, youve got new reporting about the difficulty of getting senator manchin, even into the same room with chairman of the budget committee, senator sanders, tell us about that. >> reporter: this came up in a conference call earlier this week where house progressives were talking to president biden about the way forwa...

Parts in president bidens attempts to secure passage of his social safety net plan, telling house progressives the price tag has to drop to somewhere between 1.9 trillion and 2.2 trillion from the current 3.5 trillion. and senator joe manchin, who has been insisting he wont go higher than 1.5 trillion, now hinting that he might. a lot to discuss with cnns senior political commentator david axelrod. david, good evening. good to see you, sir. >> hey, don. good to see you. >> thank you very much. p...

Can use, right, in order not to be bipartisan. finally. i hope most of the democrats in washington are waking up to this. okay. so, listen, president biden told house progressives that the social safety net package has to come down from $3.5 trillion to somewhere between $1.9 trillion and $2.2 trillion. so where are you willing to make cuts? >> yeah. well, i think we have to decide what is most important in this. what are the programs that we feel have to be in? and then we can decide on the top...

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Each other. there wouldnt be this trick or this sort of bypasses in the system that you can use, right, in order not to be bipartisan. finally. i hope most of the democrats in washington are waking up to this. okay. so, listen, president biden told house progressives that the house safety net package has to come down from $3.5 trillion to 1.9 to $2.2 trillion. where are you willing to make cuts? >> yeah. well, i think we have to decide what is most important in this. what are the programs that w...

Attempts to secure passage of his social safety net plan, telling house progressives the price tag has to drop to somewhere between 1.9 trillion and 2.2 trillion from the current 3.5 trillion. and senator joe manchin, who has been insisting he wont go higher than 1.5 trillion, now hinting that he might. a lot to discuss with cnns senior political commentator david axelrod. david, good evening. good to see you, sir. >> hey, don. good to see you. >> thank you very much. president biden telling sen...