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But is that idle encouraging to you? >> it absolutely is. we woke up to a 4:30 am email with a consolation for a meeting we had with our good friend amy senator klobuchar, who has been a leader on this issue to tell us that we will cancel the meeting, she will be flying back home, but we were hoping to be there in the senate when they took this vote. of course it happened at 4 am, i think its important to note that the unanimous consensus was blocked by ted cruz and i guess every generation has ...

Washington, 11 ago (Prensa Latina) El Senado de Estados Unidos aprobó hoy un presupuesto de 3,5 billones de dólares para una amplia expansión de la red de seguridad social de la nación.

He has a lot of concerns about the $3.5 trillion price tag. in a statement he says he worries about the economy overheating and that the country will not be able to adequately prepare for future crises if they spend that money now. now, this is not a new position of senator manchin. he sent a letter to the chair of the federal reserve, jerome powell last week saying something similar. but hes also not alone. senator kyrsten sinema said a few weeks ago she also has concerns with the price tag and...

Of that bipartisanship infrastructure hard infrastructure stuff pieces that would otherwise be in this social spending reconciliation package. they think that will make it tougher for democrats to get everything that they want because if you have got no bipartisanship vehicle for the hard infrastructure to get through, then they have got sort of a bigger area to stuff more into this reconciliation package. thats why you saw this pass with so much republican support yesterday. the bipartisanship ...

Or not he would agree to lower the price tag or whether hes firm on that number and he sidestepped the question. >> are you open to lowering the price tag or are you firm on 3.5 trillion? >> as i said, every part of bidens proposal will be there in a big robust way. there are some members in our caucus who want less, some who want more, same in the house. were all going to come together to meet that goal. >> reporter: how they all come together, of course, remains to be seen. schumer acknowledgi...

Head and thats what theyre confronting today. >> lauren, we know to get this through the senate, there is that first vote that happened, thats an appliccomplishment, b its going to need every single democratic vote. were hearing from some members of the presidents party that theyre not fans of that $3.5 trillion price tag. >> thats right, victor. right now what they have is the top line number, a framework really for what they hope to accomplish. over this august recess you can expect that the c...

Happened this year. he got all 50 behind that very large covid relief bill in march to enact that. that helped fuel some of the economic recovery and to some degree, some of the inflation that were seeing now as well. you can watch what politicians say or what they do. joe manchin last night voted for that budget outline. so did kirsten sinema. the outline indicated lots of back and forth. the price tag will probably come down some. big challenge will be holding democrats behind the tax increase...

Democratic caucus which includes schumer and manchin so far, is scrambling conventional wisdom in washington. consider just the grim reaper himself, and those are his words himself, not mine, mitch mcconnell. he famously said this year recently he would be 100% focussed on stopping the biden agenda. were dealing with the centerpiece, the big spending, not some little side deal. and basically, mitch mcconnell was part of the step of voting for the infrastructure bill. not only that, this is the t...

Here's what's in the sweeping $3.5 trillion budget resolution set to expand everything from education to health care and child support, as well as tackle climate change and crumbling infrastructure.

How about this boy? he is only a toddler. look at his golf swing. is it perfection? >> bill: thats good. what do you think? 2 years old? >> dana: wearing a diaper. he is out there let me hit this for you, dad. you think dad is proud? real proud. all right. here is harris faulkner. >> harris: we beginning with breaking news. senate democrats are ready to move forward with their multi-trillion legislative agenda and your tax money, of course, is on the line. im harris faulkner. you are in "the fau...