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And their constituents. so they have to make really tough choices, do we get rid of paid family leave, child care, what do we do with climate change, helping the homeless. they have to make really tough policy choices underneath that topline number. chris: marie, you have close ties across the party. some people are saying this is no longer just a fight between house moderates and house progressives, this is now a fight between the house democrats and senate democrats, between chuck schumer and ...

Yesterday to make his 25th hour pitch for the political center piece of his agenda but he wasnt reaching across the table across the aisle to republicans. no. because the division currently threatening that agenda isnt originating from the right. but from within his own caucus. house progressives have made good on the word not to cosign the physical portion of the presidents plan until the social spending bill is essentially guaranteed to pass the senate where two democratic holdouts continue to...

Game-changer. but experts say that vaiccines are still the way out of the pandemic. my body, my choice. hundreds of rallies across the country as protesters make a stand for reproductive rights. and instagram under fire, two high-profile influencers reveal their social media struggles. im pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn "newsroom" and it is great to have you along with us on this saturday evening. an on this saturday night in the nations capitol, the house is not in order. v...

C.com senators manchin and sinema, the problem or the solution. im michael smerconish in philadelphia. its been a roller coaster of a week in washington. democrats tried to advance a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed with bipartisan support and a more ambitious $3.5 trillion expansion of the societal safety net that lacks a single republican supporter. in the end, speaker pelosi having given problem solvers her word still couldnt deliver a vote. there are 535 members of congress, but 2 ...

A key piece of President Joe Bidens agenda has stalled in the U.S. House, as Democratic leaders again delayed a vote on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package amid partisan in-fighting.

And said that this negotiating style was what he described as being just plain absurd. that it didnt make any sense, that they were going to try and pass something in the middle of the night instead of methodically coming up with an agreement that everyone would sign off on. that was enough for pelosi to say this just isnt happening tonight. the house progressives held firm in a meeting of their own. so the big question is what happens now. it is important to keep in mind this was an arbitrary d...

This despite speaker nancy pelosis plan to vote on a bipartisan infrastructure package in the house of representatives. ment speaker waited until 10:00 on thursday night to say there would be no vote, and that is because she just didnt have enough votes for the measure to pass. house progressives held firm throughout the day, saying that they were not interested in passing this bipartisan infrastructure package without specific assurances that the much larger $3.5 trillion social safety net expa...

Trillion dollar bill will ever pass, the mission misses significantly. the best chance of getting it done is for that more conservative bill on the larger more progressive bill to move together. if i were to house republican leader, i would look at that and say, you know what lets let enough house republican votes for this, again lots of republicans like that. legislation lets another republican vote for this, that it passes. because we dont mind this bill, its fairly conservative bill it lines ...

Without a college degree, they track together. about two-thirds. and a pretty big gap on both sides. here your seeing this is a group of voters that goes democratic typically. a group of voters that goes republican, but youre seeing the same vaccination rate. the common thread is without a college degree. when we say without a college degree, its a question of social class, social trust. you have surveys showing theres much lower levels of social trust, trust in institutions among folks that hav...

And they know that manchin, senator manchin felt burned earlier in the year. and our book shows this. about the rescue plan, mitch mcconnell and other republicans feel manchin may have been asked to do too much earlier in the year and maybe hes going to sit on the sidelines for a while. so democrats are dealing with that dynamic. but speaker pelosi is trying to balance reality of the vote with the concerns of her progressives. shes close to the progressives. she doesnt want to get too far from t...