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Spending between a bipartisan infrastructure bill and what theyre calling a human infrastructure bill will address supply chain problems and bring down inflation. >> weve got to get people back into the workforce. whats going to get people back into the workforce, providing them with child care. my view is that the bill exactly is tackling inflation. >> reporter: democrats have set an end of the month deadline for themselves to pass both bills. the problem for the president right now is that he ...

Rose 5th 2%. >> this isnt just a matter of supply. this is a matter of supply and demand. every item you see, every container on every ship that is waiting at anchor in the ports of l.a. and is long beach or anywhere else is there because an american company or consumer purchased it x. thats because demand has surged. retail sales are off the charts. >> reporter: as for the empty shelves and rising prices, transportation secretary pete buttigieg says the administration began looking at supply ch...

About how this goes forward for all policies that are meant to help the poor and the working poor, low income people. is there a way in which you apply them universally and then you take them -- take that money back from the wealthy through tax policy? because how do you make sure that the rich dont get benefits that they dont need? >> look, we obviously need to be taxing the very wealthy in our society and the biggest corporations in a way that is fair. and that means we have to increase those ...

And so this is what democrats do. this is who they are. maria: its pretty incredible because theres so many unintended consequences, i assume its unintended, the fact that people dont want to go back to work because theyre counting on further checks, whether it be child care checks or the other money in the bill. do you think we will see a vote on october 31st for this and let me put up ron klains retweet of jason furman, saying that most of the economic problems were facing including inflation,...

Build-back better program have to be accessible to people in -- but in your latest op-ed you wrote that means testing which limits these benefits based on income would actually prevent more people from accessing these programs. i just want a quote from you, in theory, means testing excludes the undeserving rich in practice it often excludes the most vulnerable poor who arent always able to jump through the required hoops to prove their eligibility. can you tell me a little bit about what you mea...

The fourth child tax credit payment released on October 15 has a downward adjustment as the IRS fixed and updated records on its portal.

As Montana intensive care units fill with critically ill, mostly unvaccinated COVID-19 patients, hospital leaders there are caught between two laws that dictate whether they can require their employees to get immunized against the coronavirus. A state...

Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin believes that the child tax credit payments should have a work requirement eligibility. It should go to the working poor and not the unemployed and families with higher income.

Urgency in place. right now we know that senator manchin is at least working with the white house and hopefully senator sinema will join with senator manchin and show some good-faith effort. really right now progressives are the ones stepping up and working with the white house to put forth a lifting agenda that we can actually help middle class, lower class and the working poor. >> you mentioned senator sinema. lets ask you, laura, about this social media video. it is on twitter. i know the oth...

Economy. >> so depending on what you watch, people -- some people are hearing a lot about that type of attack. but this is always a budget conversation about priorities regardless of the language or the scare tactics. so a lot of what the republican party has done historically is spend -- that is as a budgetary matter it costs the government money -- and give money essentially to people who already have it, corporations and the very wealthy. it is what i referred to recently as the corporate wel...