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hoped to finish on amendments and pass the bill late last night. didn't work out that way. eat's bring in ryan nobles, nbc capitol hill correspondent. ryan, do senate leaders have a path forward here? >> reporter: things are a little precarious. they do not have a deal yet, and the holdup right now comes in the form of requests from senator mike lee of utah for an up-or-down vote on extending title 42, which is of course a very contentious issue here on capitol hill. and lee seems pretty willing to kind of play chicken with this omnibus bill and hold out until he get what is he wants, which is a vote that could likely pass if it were just a simple up ordown majority. but the problem with that, joe, is if it were to pass the senate and then go to the house, it has the potential of blowing up the sbirp omnibus bill because there are not enough votes in the house in order to pass the bill with that title 42 amendment
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the party. when you get this deep into the calendar, they want to enact this month or this month bleeding into next month. the deeper you get into the calendar, the more these threats from both sides take on added meaning. and, so, we don't know if they can bridge that gap. joe manchin did make a comment to one of our colleagues tonight that there's a lot going on that you don't know. so we will see what happens in those next 48 hours that pelosi referred to. but whether or not they can get through to something that's reasonably close to what joe biden wants in this $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, we don't know if they can pull it off. there's cautious optimism in the white house they still can, but a recognition that once people late in the process play chicken too long, sometimes they collide even though they don't intend to, and that could have bad consequences for them. >> yeah. so, jim, if these bills collapse because of open warfare within
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from both sides take on added meaning. and so we don't know if they can bridge that gap. joe manchin did make a comment to one of our colleagues tonight that there's a lot going on that you don't know. so we will see what happens in those next 48 hours that pelosi referred to. but whether or not they can get through to something that's reasonably close to what joe biden wants in this $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, we don't know if they can pull it off. there's cautious optimism in the white house they still can. but a recognition that once people late in the process play chicken too long, sometimes they collide even though they don't intend to, and that could have bad consequences for them. >> yeah. so, jim, if these bills collapse because of open warfare within the democratic party, there will be tons of finger pointing here. will biden be able to carry on with the rest of his agenda if this falls apart? >> i think he will, and i don't think it's going to fall apart.
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