forward in the senate. i do. we are joined now from capitol hill for more on this. there is a lot going on. so let s start with this. manu, on infrastructure, where are things right now? because there was optimism yesterday and it seems it is evaporated overnight. reporter: no question about it. in fact you could probably say it is more likely that the talks will collapse and they will come together and it is unclear how they could come together at this point. after they ve been talking for several weeks, remember last month they announced a deal on a bare bones outline of ten republican and democrat senator as long with joe biden. but they ve had a hard time turning that outline into details legislative text that could be $1.2 trillion over the next eight years including $600 billion of new money that they can t figure out how to pay for it and disagreement and funding levels for transit and how to deal with enacted covid relief money and redirect this
obviously there is a lot of threads to what he s facing today on capitol hill. kate, you saw joe biden summoning the spirit of what he considers best about his time in the united states senate. and that is times when they could work across the aisle. the americans with disabilities act was passed by a democratic house and senate, signed by a republican president, with major contributions from republican legislators like bob dole. the senate republican leader, of course now retired, 98 years old. this is joe biden at a pivotal point where he s trying to get his infrastructure plan, the smaller bill that he s trying to forge across the finish line. it is difficult. you ve had republicans pushing back today on a democratic offer. democrats saying republicans are moving the goalpost. very hard to do in the modern environment which is more polarized than it was then. but even then, you had a lot of
we re almost done writing the hill or this is a make or break week for infrastructure. so your point, the reason things fell apart is because of the last things left are always the most challenging. the low hanging fruit tends to get picked up first. so that is why they re at the sticking points and it is hard to resolve. i think the question now becomes at what point do democratic leaders decide to pull the plug and move on. i think the latest breakdown is certainly going to fuel calls to move on and their starting to feel antsy and they want to get to the massive spending program on social programs an feel like republicans are just running out of the clock and playing them here. so that is the question right now. but until joe manchin and kyrsten sinema are on board, the strategy of pulling the plug, i don t see them going there. we re back in the same place. then tomorrow, manu, from the senate side to the house side, the first hearing of the select committee investigating the jan
partisan passions and on the issue of the americans with disabilities, like infrastructure, it doesn t fit in the normal partisan frame. they got that done. it was one of highlights of george h.w. bush s administration and joe biden wants to make this bipartisan infrastructure plan one of the highlights of his administration trying to recapture some of that bipartisan magic right now. i m sitting here wondering, do you think something like the a.d.a. could be passed today? i do. i think that you get certain categories of action that if they can t readily fall into the partisan pegs that we have become accustomed to, sometimes you can move it along. saw that on a bill to combat or stand up and compete economically with china this year. it was not something that was highly identified as a democratic or republican initiative. they worked together. they got a strong senate vote.
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