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Theres times when we received bill text 30 minutes before voting on the bill. thats unacceptable. especially when were making the biggest social investment since the new deal. i want to see bill texts the way joe manchin gets an opportunity to go through it line-by-line. my associates and i need to go through it line-by-line, as well. we are finally on the precipice of investing in public housing, for example, in the way where we havent done in decades. investing in -- extending the child texas ...

Before folding on the bill. thats completely unacceptable especially for something like this where we are making the biggest social investment since the new deal. so i want to see bill text the same way joe mansion gets the opportunity to go through it line by line. my office and we on the house side need to go through it line by line, as well and continue these negotiations. we are finally on the precipice of investing in public housing for example in a way where we havent done in decades. inve...

Hearing aids or glasses. thats money in their pockets. so this is all about rebalancing this economic system thats been completely out of whack for 30 or 40 years. people are very imnpatient, i inpatient, time to get it done. >> democrats are still hashing out the safety net package but what is in includes universal prek, climate tax credits and incentives, funding for affordable housing. it would benefit many ohioans of all ideologies, and all different backgrounds whether republican or democra...

That it would actually get done. take a listen. >> were down to four or five issues i wont negotiate on national television. >> we would be interesting in hearing if you want. >> i know. all kidding aside, i think we can get there. >> but there are two major hurdles that democrats have to overcome and that is west virginia senator i love the filler buster joe mansion and arizona senator, nobody know what is she wants, kyrsten sinema. to ensure both remain on board in passing this once in a lifet...

Be the largest tax cut for the middle class and the works class and low income people that weve ever had. universal prek, there are so many elements of this that are so popular and we have to emphasize what is in it but what i like about this is this gives us time to focus on that. right now, we had 12 days to figure this out because defaulting on the debt is catastrophic and so we could not have allowed that and thats when we could have changed the rules to do it just to save our economy. reall...

Worked to iron out exactly how much to spend and what programs to spend it on. we get more now from cbs nancy cordes. >> every bit of it is paid for. >> reporter: the president was in michigan today to sell a plan he now admits must be slashed nearly in half. >> to pose those investments is to be explicit in americas decline. >> reporter: he and house democrats spent the morning discussing what to cut from his signature social spending package in order to secure the votes they need. >> this is l...

In the final agenda if they pass it and the infrastructure bill. just for you here in michigan. $17.3 billion to repair highways in the infrastructure bill. $1 million for transportation. if you pass the spending plan, child care costs and free universal prek. the discussion has been is it $3.5 trillion not about child care costs or the climate. but just today from camilla jayapal, for the progressives, she says no, at least 2.5 trillion so the money fight continues. >> the money fight continues...

There, mike. president biden now says he believes he can get senators manchin and sinema to agree to $2 trillion in the reconciliation bill, significantly less thanprogress progressives wanted. >> reporter: the bill is currently in downsizing mode. the price tag is going to fall below $3 trillion. its just unclear how low it gets. thats where we see tensions between progressives and centrists. theyre trying to frame this conversation around demanding that centrists say what specifically do they ...

Dental, hearing or pelosi that really wants to see the aca subsidies made permanent. there is a lot they have to get through in what boris said a few weeks, a month if they have an agreement. >> real quick i want to pull up what is in the original plan because extension of the child tax credit, universal prek, subsidized care, free community college. you can get a lot done in $2 trillion but youve promised a lot of things. there is constituencies behind these, the cutting, the shaping, how this ...

Matter if its 2.5 or 3, its what is in it. what do you see getting cut back? >> the dental vision component for elderly americans could go. i think the community college piece could go. i think those are a couple of visit couple things that come to my mind. >> what about you, ron? >> well, i guess, the logic is less to remove entirely than play with how long theyre in place and try to in someways take the most popular items like the child tax credit, universal prek perhaps, some of the health ca...