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According to the congressional budget office it comes short. they initially said $367 billion will fall short. now, they included the issue of increased tax enforcement by the irs. if there is increased tax enforcement they say the actual number would be $160 billion added to the deficit over the next ten years. behind the scenes, though, the white house has been trying to shore up support, saying those numbers don't align with what the white house's projection is. the white house says that actually added enforcement by the irs would raise enough to fully pay for the package and that is the ar...

Accusing a top chinese official after sexual assault. the head of the women's tennis association tonight demanding an investigation. he's my guest. let's go outfront. good evening, i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight the breaking news. president biden's team meeting with key moderate democrats tonight trying to lock in the votes for their progressive bill to pass the house of representatives tonight. tonight finally passing the house this evening. their build back better act, finally. any moment now the house is expected to hold a procedural vote which would advance the so-called build back b...

In red ink the next ten years. that didn't seem to be a problem with the moderate democrats. what did you make of that? >> that's right. remember even the cbo said that the budget figure, the deficit figure is a little less than the $367 billion. they said something that they couldn't quite score was the $200 billion in extra revenue the democrats would bring in through enhanced irs enforcement. that bring it down in the hundred billion dollars range. a lot of these blue dog democrats were content with this. with these statistics, democrats or republicans, anybody can take that cbo score and u...

He believes voters will hammer moderate democrats from swing districts that voted yes. >> any democrat that sits in a seat that is a d plus 10, they're at risk of losing their race. i don't know how representative spanberger will defend this vote and run for re-election. >> passing the bill in the senate will be a challenge but liberals are daring moderates like joe manchin and kristen sinema to blow up the bill. >> it would be difficult for any democrat of any background to be the sole no vote to tank this for the entire country. i think there's limits to even what some of these folks would b...

Deficit neutral because we're going get more money than the budget office thinks we're going get. that's where the discrepancy comes in. >> $367 billion in the deficit over a decade according to the summary, a net increase of the deficit. >> that's right, that's right. >> but that doesn't include -- they're not counting any additional revenue that may be generated for tax. >> right. and the white house says they're going get more than the cbo believes they're going get. that's where the discrepancy comes in. so the white house can go out there and say this is paid for, which is what the modera...