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Could delay them even further in acting right away. they still have to of course get the votes to get it out of the house. they have to go through a formal process to make sure it passes and maets muster with the strict senate budget rules. also there are some concerns and demands from house moderates that the full bill was $1.75 trillion bill gets the full cost estimate for the non-partisan budget office. erica, that is a process that could take some time and datic leaders have to heed to that demand. with three votes to lose in the house, nancy pelosi may have no choice. even though there is...

Week, next week, or the week after that doesn't have joe manchin's buy-in. the risk is that manchin, when it gets to the senate and gets changed, that's risk that a lot of house democrats will have to live with. >> what are the big issues still remaining to deal with, as far as democrats are concerned, to get this through the house and the senate? >> yeah, so nancy pelosi was just in a closed party meeting in the capitol a couple of minutes ago. i was over there staking it out. she told house democrats there are a couple of issues that are hanging out there, as you have on the screen. precipit...

Be able to go through what is called the reconciliation process, and that really is the budget rules determined by the senate to make sure that it follows those budget rules so that just requires a simple majority. and then if you have that on monday, tuesday is the day that they could bring -- house speaker nancy pelosi bring both of those bills to the house floor. we know at least for infrastructure it had been passed by the senate earlier, and so that would be very significant if the house could pass that and send along to the senate, the president would be able to sign it rather quickly. a...

Vote for the reconciliation bill unless it includes a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants here in the united states. i think the senate parliamentarian has said would not be allowed under budget rules. where do you stand on this? >> i want to get as much immigration reform as possible passed in reconciliation. over the pandemic, we have really depended on our essential workers. 5 million essential workers in this country who have taken care of us are undocumented. we know that they pay $70 billion a year in taxs and we know that offering are path to citizenship would in...

Some are optimistic and some are saying how does it happen? how do you see it now? where does it stand? >> we don't know those details. one moderate democrat told fox they were exasperated at progressives making impossible demand and members frustrated as they try to divine what's in and what's out. finance committee chairman released his plan to tax billionaires. some viewed it as an effort to court the left. so many liberal initiatives are pared back but democratic leaders deny that. >> we're not making decisions based on what the moderates what, what the left wants, what the center wants. w...