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Climate change. medicare expansion to include hearing coverage. and year-long extension of the child tax credit. in a boon for biden, progressives are endorsing this slimmed down plan. >> we are really proud of the president and of our progressive caucus and our progressive allies for getting so many of our big priorities into the framework. >> reporter: manchin has refused to take a position on the bill. but he told cnn that he's okay with the price tag, which is more than he originally proposed. >> 1.72, is that a victory? 1.75 too high? >> that was negotiated. >> sinema did not endorse the ...

Giving up this fight until the bill is on the floor. that's the case in a lot of issues. you can do this when it's a framework not a piece of legislation. there are several issues like that where individual lawmakers or groups of lawmakers have said look, we support this in general but there is still room to add more to it. we may see that with paid leave. gillibrand is committed to continuing to chase joe manchin around the senate like she's one of us in the press corps. >> she's a tiger as did patty murray. the paid for has come up with 1.75 but they have 1.95 so they've got, you know, some ...

President biden said yesterday of course i am not getting everything in the bill. that's how it works. some members need to learn that you can't solve all the world's problem in one piece of legislation and by any historical standard, $1.7 trillion of social spending is a victory that we should take. >> we spent more money last year on road relief bills than we spent on adjusted money winning world war ii and passing the marshal plan. >> wow. >> it was massive historical spending last year. $1.2 trillion on an infrastructure bill is historic. 1.75 and $1.8 trillion on this supplemental, you kn...

Everything that you originally asked for, you would be getting more on climate and literally a laundry list of people's most pressing concerns that we haven't seen in a generation. >> you're right, chris. and that's why there hasn't been any real progressive who has come out and said we're opposed to the 1.75 top line. i thought the president was so eloquent, particularly when he spoke about education. this is the first time in america we're going to have universal preschool. every kid is going to get to go to preschool. we're going to invest in child care and we're going to have the biggest i...

Congresswoman, we will start with you. we see what is happening with the democratic party. this started out at $3.5 trillion, although if you use joe's math, it wouldn't cost us zero, zero, pay your fair share. with that math doesn't work. now it is 1.75, manchin still saying he is sticking at 1.5. do you see, you are on the floor, did democratic progressive caucus going along with a manchin-sinema-style bill? >> absolutely not. democrats are in utter disarray, sean, and this is a lame duck speaker of the house. nancy pelosi is a lame duck, and we know that both joe biden and nancy pelosi and ...