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>> to me, it would suggest a lack of urgency for things they might need would assume everybody knows its happening. many states decided to spend this money on things that have nothing to do with covid bet on projects they have wanted. >> the irony of that is we are going to this whole infrastructure battle right now. some of the mayors went right t the idea that he needs to fix roads. thats not what the american rescue plan was about, it was about covid and coming out of the pandemic. get one if...

Their constituents with the key win here. that being said, jim, the white house, this is the strategy that biden has implemented, even before he became president. when it appeared as though certain gaffes or other issues during his presidential campaign would take him down, the white house always sticks to their original strategy, biden usually always sticks to his original strategy. and that was trying to pass these two bills in tandem together knowing that he had to do it that way, because the...

Nature, that infrastructure battle that you were just talking about and then ones that are really fundamental to the way government works and functions. both of these spending cliffs, the debt ceiling one that is not typical party politics as usual. thats something that usually both parties can work together on lifting or spending. weve all covered these government shutdowns before. at least this one could be averted in the next coming hours. >> this is wait until the last possible second to the...

0 up the coverage right now. >> good morning, its 9:00 a.m., im jose diaz-balart in for stephanie ruhle whos on assignment. a massive infrastructure vote, the pressure is on in the house and the senate. senate republicans standing their ground on the debt limit as a rift between democrats appears to grow even wider. also on the hill this morning, in 30 minutes defense secretary lloyd austin, general mark milley and general mckenzie will face another day of questions, this time from members of ...

>> reporter: the presidents pulled up his continue to plunge, the latest clear politics average his approval rating dropping four points from last month, nearly 10 points from april to below 46%, republicans on the hell are ready for a fight over green new deal politics. >> we talked about infrastructure for a long time what everybody considered infrastructure. where they have gone on the left is to redefine infrastructure to include a lot of anti-fossil fuel green new deal type proposals. >> th...

Provision that every senator wants here. well see what it looks like. we havent seen the text. >> that is remarkable. thank you for clearing up the confusion. the last point, weve not seen the text. lets bring that part into the conversation with our reporters at the table here. it is stunning. were going to get to a bigger spending plan in a minute. its over $1 trillion, and members of the united states senate are casting a vote. its not a vote for final passage, but still, none of them know ex...

Not increasing the debt and republicans want to see the fine print.reducing the national debt and doing both will be difficult. its only the beginning of the infrastructure battle that will run all year. in washington, carlcameron , fox news.>> president trump holding the first sit down with a foreign leader. she made it very clear to the president is that she thinks he should follow her lead when it comes to vladimir putin. as far as the uks concern in relationto the activities in the ukraine ,...