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Reworked. we know senator bernie sanders is working on that. now it is also medicaid expansion. now there's only money in the bill for hearing aids. bernie sanders won dental and vision taking care of, to. but still senators are optimistic they can get to yes. let's listen to senator tina smith yesterday. >> having been in conversation with senator manchin and senator -- my strongly is that everybody is trying to find a path forward. you can always tell when people are trying to get to yes or whether they're trying to find an excuse to say no. i have a strong feeling that democrats in the sena...

Good things that progressives especially fight for but nearly $2 trillion less than the original framework proposed by senator bernie sanders who championed this bill from the start. it is not just manchin and sinema with concerns with the bill. bernie sanders has problems with medicaid expansion. there's money only for hearing in the bill. he wants vision and dental and said it's a red line for him and problems with the tax revenue. the cbo estimated that this bill will add over $360 billion to the deficit. something that's not going to fly with the moderates and something called the salt tax...

For investing in additional social programs before funding existing ones like social security, for example. his state a big benefactor of that one. there's funding for hearing aids but not vision. you have democrats working on immigration provisions and have gone back and forth a few times already and you have the finance committee looking at ways to add additional revenue because right now the budget office, the congressional budget office, this nonpartisan score keeper said the bill would have 360 billion to the deficit something that some are opposed. this is a long process. i'll grab my sl...

Tick up the price of the bill. the cbo, we're sticking to sports terms, the nonpartisan scorekeeper of this whole process, they said this bill already adds over $360 billion to the deficit. that's a big concern for senator joe manchin and other moderates in the senate and adding provisions like medicaid expansion will only tick up that price. you also have items ha manchin opposes in the bill like paid family leave. he doesn't want to see expanded social safety programs without being able to fund current ones. but let's listen to what speaker nancy pelosi said after the house passed this histo...

Hard-working taxpayer. every page of this washington spending supports more waste, more fraud, more abuse and more corruption. this is the single most reckless and irresponsible spending bill in our nation's history. >> reporter: the nonpartisan congressional budget office is it at $360 billion to the deficit over a decade. the white house insisting otherwise. >> it doesn't cost a cent. we talk about $1.75 billion. it is paid for. this is and some gigantic bill. it is up what happens to ordinary people. we could get it passed in a week. it is fully paid for. >> reporter: the cbo score does not...