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$928 billion, only $257 billion in new spending, less than a seventh of the president's curtailed $1.7 trillion plan. in addition, they suggested that the money should come from unspent covid relief, which you yourself called insulting. given the flexibility on raising the corporate tax rate to pay for the plan, are you in favor of bypassing their version of bipartisanship and using the reconciliation as some of your fellow senate democrats have called for once this holiday recess is over? >> reverend al, i don't think there's any question we've gotten to the point, what i call fish or cut bai...

Infrastructure plan, blowing through his own self-imposed dead line of wrapping up negotiations by memorial day. and here's the thing puzzling to me about that. today, senate republicans unveiled their counter proposal. the sticker price is $900 billion. less than half of what biden's original proposal called for. and it takes out a bunch of the most popular parts of the bill. that sticker price is sort of an illusion. more than $600 billion of those dollars are already in the federal budget, and scheduled to be spent on infrastructure projects, bill or no bill. so republicans are only proposi...

Something to do with it. at the same time, president biden is planning to continue negotiating with republicans on the next piece of his legislative agenda. his multitrillion-dollar infrastructure plan, blowing through his own self-imposed dead line of wrapping up negotiations by memorial day. and here's the thing puzzling to me about that. today, senate republicans unveiled their counter proposal. the sticker price is $900 billion. less than half of what biden's original proposal called for. and it takes out a bunch of the most popular parts of the bill. that sticker price is sort of an illus...

We do have concerns about things that the president cares about that we think are very important that we don't see reflected in there, like substantial increases for rail and transit. i don't think the things we've been talking about in terms of the power grid are reflected there. clearly a lot of work to do before these would be meeting in the middle. i do think there's progress. we really valued the conversations that have happened. they've been transparent and straightforward. given that we started very far apart, there's really been, i think, a lot of healthy dialogue up to this point. >> ...

It's $56 billion for airports, $506 billion for roads and bridges, $22 billion for wear, those look like big numbers. however if you learn washington budget speak and things like baseline. $928 billion is not really $928 billion. >> right, it's the keyword baseline we're watching. if you compare apples to apples you're comparing $1.7 trillion to about $257 billion from the senate republicans they laid out this morning. so clearly further apart than it seems because what -- in terms of new spending, that's how much the senate republicans are proposing compared to the white house. and that seems...