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. welcome back. a key step for house democrats looking to advance president biden's economic agenda. on tuesday they approved a $3.5 trillion budget resolution after reaching a compromise with house moderates. ryan nobles has the details from capitol hill. >> reporter: it is no doubt a big win for the house speaker nancy pelosi, a little more than 24 hours ago it looked like she didn't have the votes to get that framework for the big $3.5 trillion budget package to be passed. but ten moderates who were holding out demanding that they get a vote on the smaller $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrast...

Concrete benefits to people in the form of physical infrastructure, in the form of human benefits, child tax credits, expanded medicare benefits, free community college, a whole range of things in the budget bill that was advanced today in the house of representatives. he's facing tremendous resistance from republicans legislatively on covid in the states, on voting rights, and he thinks that going into 2022 and 2024, his best chance of surviving the democratic majority and also winning a second term is by acting, not talking about what you want to do for people, talking about what you have do...

Democrats $.5 trillion socialist spending plan. >> if the infrastructure does not succeed then of course there is absolutely no chance for a budget reconciliation to succeed. we would all vote against that i think you have mutually assured destruction or come together and figure out that you have got to compromise. >> but democrats stuck together adopting a framework for their budget package. liberals worried about moderates getting their way at the expense of the socialist spending bill. >> i'm not angry with anyone. but i'm committed to making sure that we are united and we get on the right ...

Bring the sides together. now, progressives are going to say thanks but no thanks. they are public enemies number one and two. and you have outside groups going after these democrats. not only is there this family feud, it's out in public. that's relationships that you're seeing tested within, and the more a lot of these people are attacked the further they're going to dig in. >> one of the things that seems to be that progressives are worried about and why they want the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill is they don't know that they can get kyrsten sinema and joe manchin to vote for thi...

Legislation, the senate passed bipartisan infrastructure bill and the upcoming reconciliation budget bill. overnight the nine moderate democrats rejecting a new offer from the speaker, the one she suggested both bills considered at the same time in the rules committee. no relief for pelosi on the other side of her party, the democrats progressive wing. calling voting on the budget package before anything else. i want to bring in sahil kapur on capitol hill. both ends saying thanks but no thanks. >> reporter: speaker pelosi is facing a squeeze from progressives who will not support the bill unl...