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Until sometime this fall. todd, jillian. todd: lauren, thank you very much. jillian: senator john kennedy says the bipartisan infrastructure bill alone is enough to hurt your wallet. take a listen. >> they told us this isn't going to add to inflation, but it is. i don't like to brag about all the expensive places i've been but earlier today i went to the gas station. this bill's going to make it worse. it's going to make it worse for groceries too. and look, i'm for infrastructure. i'm just not for infrastructure at any cost. jillian: the congressional budget office said the bill would add to ...

Here's congressional correspondent chad pergram. >> one can always unearth controversial nuggets in any bill of this size. $125 million to potentially tax people based on how far they drive and language requiring car makers to install breathalyzers. >> mechanisms on cars that will not allow them to be driven if someone is over the limit. i don't know how that works. >> the bill heaps $256 billion on the debt. but supporters say it pays for itself by improving the movement of commerce. expect 50 democrats and 18 republicans to vote yes. >> you don't see the number of conservative republicans su...

Through new fees. and basically, deficit financing. and when you look at that, plus the 256 billion-dollar debt, and when you look at the fact that does not even count the money that they came up short in the outlier on this, you are talking about this is something too expensive to the board and there is no reason to say, august is here, we have got to pass this bill. we need to be more thoughtful. and we need to do a bill that is going to tend to the roads and rivers and runways and railways and broadband into it with the money that we have. do not go spending the money that her children and ...

Governance. pete: amen. well said. we turn now to a live look at ap capitol hill where senators are resuming infrastructure talks today. mark meredith joins us live from washington with more. >> reporter: hey, pete, good morning. the senate's going to to be back in session this afternoon. lawmakers have been working through the weekend to move this bipartisan infrastructure bill forward. and while it appears it's still on track to pass, we don't -- [no audio] >> reporter: he says it's about jobs and also about building better energy transmission lines. he also says we can't afford not to do it...

Neil: what the heck does anything having to do with cryptocurrency have to do with infrastructure? >> the idea this is a pay for. it raises about $28 billion in revenue, something that they're very concerned about when they got this report back from the cbo saying it put them in the hole to the tune of $256 billion and knowing they will have a bigger bill, the democrats are, 3.5 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. all about the math. i often talk about the math on the vote count, this is the math on the ledger. neil: all right. i understand that now. ted, thank you very much, following these ...