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This bill was supposed to pass in september, october, november. here we are, in december, and we are hitting up against the same problems and the same people and the same no problem it's going to pass, kind of hard to believe it at this point. does the white house think biden's going to get this done before christmas? >> welcome to congress. you know as well as anybody and i think the white house knows as well. look. publicly, white house officials have not diverge from that christmas deadline. senate majority leader chuck schumer made clear that is still the deadline just a couple weeks away ...

Weeks to ensure this bill conforms with the strict budget rules under the process democrats are going through, trying to cut republicans out and pass it along party lines. then they have to solve the remaining differences within their own democratic caucus, mainly with senator joe manchin, who has a number of concerns about the expansion of medicare, climate provisions, tax provisions. he's concerned generally about the cost. can they get that all resolved in the next two weeks? that seems doubtful. when i spoke to him yesterday, he did not seem convinced by the white house's argument that thi...

States and municipalities, most of which cannot run chronic deficits like the Federal Government due to state constitutional, statutory and charter prohibitions, must make hard choices if debt becomes burdensome.

With their strict budget rules and where you have democrats go to the parliamentarian to try to get provisions in. the hot potato will be immigration. there is essentially place holder language that deals with immigration in the bill now. that could change in the senate. we should have a final vote, final result on this vote in 15 or 20 minutes or less. >> stand by with us. >> bill: a lot of billions, smitty. you come off 1.2 trillion on the infrastructure. back to you momentarily, chad. this bill includes more than $500 billion in spending on climate action. $400 billion toward childcare and ...

Changes the senate makes. kevin? >> let me ask you about that, because chad, according to some reporting out there, this could be much more expensive. i'm just curious about the cbo analysis, how long might that take before we get something like that to chew over? >> we're thinking about a week, week and a half. that's why the moderates wanted to hold off on this vote because they wanted a final evaluation. they had some scores from the committee on taxation, joint committee on taxation here on capitol capitol hill and treasury. keep in mind in the senate they have strict budget rules that has...