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Progress. his press secretary today moments ago trying to put pressure on the republicans. >> our concessions went time as far as theirs so the ball is in their court. we are waiting their counterproposal. we would welcome that. we're eager to engage and even have them down here to the white house. >> back with us, cnn's manu raju. and laura lopez. let's start with that. we're in the inevitable finger pointing phase. the white house says republicans to do more. the original white house proposal $2.25 trillion, the president counters with $1.7 trillion, being reasonable, coming down. the republ...

Families plan would expand access to childcare and invest in universal preschool. and negotiations are progressing over the american jobs plan. late yesterday, the white house offered a compromise that lowered its price tag from $2.25 trillion to 1.7 trillion. that was in response to the republican's initial counterproposal which sits at just over half a trillion. a spokesman for the lead republican negotiator said there are vast differences between the two sides over what to include in the bill and how to pay for it. today, the white house responded. a statement notes that president biden's o...

Telling republicans that ball is now in their court. after republican senators rejected president biden's counter offer to their inter infrastructure proposal. >> the white house says it put out a reasonable counter proposal, luring that price tiger from two trillion to 1.7 trillion dollars. the republican saying it is still too much compared to their 560 billion dollar plan. >> lauren egan is in d.c. to bring the latest on. this lauren, so what is next? >> yes, good morning guy, well it's looking increasingly unlikely that that memorial day deadline is going to be met. republicans and democra...

We all saw it on television. members of congress and staff are still working through that trauma. these people were not tourists. they were terrorists. if we don't get answers and some accountability, i think this will happen again, unfortunately. >> sobering. let's turn to infrastructure as the republicans are rejecting the new $1.7 trillion counter proposal. where do we go from here? at what point do you want to see the white house and democrats go ahead and move forward without republicans? >> this notion of infrastructure is bipartisan in nature. we have 40,000 roads and bridges that nee...

President biden's original bid was 2.3 and now it's down to 1.7. so that is a big difference, and we're talking, you know, big dollars here over a ten-year period. and what has happened is their definition of infrastructure, republicans wanting the hard kind of infrastructure. roads and bridges and the like. president biden and his team with a broader definition. and they are willing to work on some of the issues, but they're also hitting another roadblock on how they would pay for it. so what looked like progress, what looked like a willingness toward bipartisanship, the back and forth of shu...