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Hagerty saying it was not paid for in tennessee and chuck schumer will have a rare saturday session. tim kaine serves on the senate budget committee and foreign relations committee. you had a late night, thanks for being with us today, but i gather that there was an objection from senator hagerty to the congressional budget office that it was not fully paid for, that it would add $256 billion to the deficit, half of the overall cost of this bill. how do you answer that accusation and i guess, do you think it will still pass tomorrow night? >> andrea, i'll jump to the punchline, yes, it is goin...

Negotiator of the infrastructure deal. senator test ter, god to see you. >> let me start with what you learned from an office, the cost of this and what it adds to the deficit. i'm such a graded washington reporter these days, i saw dollar $256 billion after ten years, that's something change, but that is adding to the deficit. are you really comfortable with the idea of dynamic scoring to make the case that this is paid for? when i'm old enough to remember when democrats were not for dynamic scoring. >> a lot of things that the cpo did not score, they know fully well those dollars are coming ...

Down. and what bill hagerty is saying that he looked at the cbo score, and the numbers put out by the congressional number score, and you said, hey, this bill is going to be paid for, but this is showing that the infrastructure bill is going to add some $256 billion to the deficit, and i'm not comfortable moving forward on this just yet. hagerty is not somebody who is going to ever get to yes on the underlying bill here, but he wants to do the due diligence here, and the senators recognize that is something that he is going to do, and they argue that the cbo report does not take into account t...

Because it works... and so do i. ♪ hydration beyond the hype. ♪ good morning. this is "early start." >> half past the hour, time for our top stories to keep an eye on today. >> the biden administration is ramping up the pressure to get more people vaccinated withholding federal funds from states, think nursing homes here, just one of the early ideas being discussed now. senate leaders failing to reach a deal on quick passage of a bipartisan infrastructure deal, that sets up a key procedural vote tomorrow. the congressional budget office estimates the bill would add $256 billion to the ...

Is just wrong. legislators should actually have a chance to legislate. no one can deny that we have kept our word in the democratic majority. today we will consider even more amendments, and hopefully we can bring this bill to a close, very shortly. our goal is to pass both a bipartisan infrastructure bill, and a budget budget resolution during this work period, and we will stay here to get both done. >> senator portman and the other republican senators negotiating the bill, promised it would be fully paid for, and not add to the deficit. but after senator portman and the republicans dropped, ...