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Bipartisan infrastructure bill. progressives have vowed to tore p tore peat dough the bill because they don't have a bill that would touch on everything. you can see it. maternity leave, climate crisis, child tax credits, $556 billion costs over a couple of years. it as bill that will remake the role of government in american life. the price tag is a no-go for moderates in the senate. senator joe manchin revealing publicly the most he wants that bill to cost is $1.5 trillion. that's $2 trillion less than where progressives are right now. >> i've never been a liberal in any way, shape or the fo...

Burn. it's much more complicated to pass it through reconciliation at this point than it would have been several months ago or has been the case in previous years because they have to amend the budget resolution, they have to have many hours of floor time and vote-a-ramas and all sorts of things that americans don't care about. there is a little uncertainty even about the october 18 deadline. >> not the way you would do it at home or your business if you were facing financial questions. let's move on to another issue. i know this issue is important to you. democrats have a lot they're trying t...

>> yeah. >> but, you know, we need the senators to come to the table and tell us what they want. >> so one thing that always troubles me about this. um, when anybody comes up with a bill is, you know, that people put in an estimate on what this is going to cost and it's over a certain, you know, arbitrary time period for things that people expect to last forever. happens in both parties. in this case, i want to talk about something specific. because, you know, we talk about what this costs. it actually cost a whole lot more than the number out there. child tax credit, for example. right now, t...

Education, you borrow money. found $556 billion of the deficit, 58% of it can be traced to recent bills including the 2015 tax extenders. the doc fix. the 2017 tax law. that's the part in blue there. and the bipartisan budget act of 2018. so this is an incidental. this isn't the president saying, hey, we had some kind of weird economic downturn. this is deliberate. >> this is self-imposed. this is really fiscal self-sabotage. that's what's happening and on both sides of the budget. so we have a -- he had a huge tax cut that put nearly $2 trillion more to the debt. it's a big chunk of what's ad...

Unfit for office. i'm a republican, he's not, he's not a conservative republican, he's an an tunist. >> graham tweeted if we nominate truch, we'll get destroyed and deserve it. they had the white house, the senate and could have passed 556 billion for the wall, they decided not to do it. but now, here they are with air traffic controllers not getting paychecks. the president spouting off about wheels at every turn and not clear what he's demanding. >> this is where i asked the democrats to come paback to washington and to vote for money for the wall. the barrier. whatever you want to call it. ...