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This goes going forward, but, chuck, to give you a better standard for our audience right now you're basically playing with these four puzzle pieces that they're trying to fit together from government funding to the debt limit to the first infrastructure plan that is bipartisan, the second one that's not going to be $3.5 trillion nancy pelosi acknowledges but how much less will it be? the desire had been for this to all get done dh week, clearly that's not going to happen, joe biden himself yesterday said that was the case, he said it will likely happen perhaps into the next week and beyond. f...

>> well, there were democrats who wanted biden to walk away from the talks altogether just because they thought republicans were going to be obstructionist, they thought this deal was never going to get done. republicans did make some concessions, though not nearly as many as the left. for example, this new deal has billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars and more new spending than initially republicans were willing to back. is so in that sense it's a concession, but all of those programs you mentioned -- climate programs, elder care programs, childcare programs, things biden was ...

Which would amount to more than $4 trillion and the total number here we are talking about, which is $6 trillion, you get to by a slight increase in defense funding and another additional $1.5 trillion that would be for health, education, and climate programs. so, of course, any presidential budget is more of a list of priorities reflecting what they would like to see happen. of course, it's not yet reality until he can do that and work with congress. the main question of course is on infrastructure, something the white house wanted to see major progress on by memorial day, by monday, but thos...

Comes to this infrastructure deal, to try to get that bipartisan agreement on that deal. to get some buy in from republicans, even though they don't necessarily have to have it. and yet, the clock has been clicking and they don't seem to have it. we'll find out, of course, tomorrow what the republican counter offer is. biden is going to have to make a real choice about whether to go with that watered down compromise, that would leave a lot of funding for climate programs, which is an essential part of his agenda and part of what his progressive base is calling for, to leave that on the cutting...

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