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Sealing and the possibility of shutting down the government. my hope is that we will keep ourselves in a position to pay our debts. the united states of america, the richest country in the world can't be known as debt-free nation. we have to pay our debt and have to work our way through it and it'll take compromise and it'll get there. mike: the social spending package pass house of representatives is over at the senate, it sounds like west virginia senator joe manchin may want to hold off next year to see the impact of inflation, do you worry about waiting until next year for that bill? congr...

This is a not a red state/blue state issue. This is a moral issue for all Americans.

Child poverty moving forward. there's a number of clean tax energy credits in here. the climate provision. it's upwards of $500 billion. there's also an expansion that's going to capture two million people whose states did not expand medicare coverage under baker. they've been in this coverage gap without. in terms of medicare, bernie sanders had wanted vision, dental and hearing. hearing is going to make it ultimately into this package if the framework holds up, don. a big part of paying for this is going to be new taxes on very high earners in this country. so that is the working framework. ...

I'm told at a private lunch just now, they walked through some of the issues unresolved, dealing with medicare and expansion of medicare. dealing with medicaid, closing the coverage gap that exists in a number of states. how to deal with immigration, and also paid leave for employees has been a big push among liberals, as well as climate issues and taxes as well. so as you can see, a number of major issues still have yet to be resolved. the question is can they get this all together, and can they keep their various factions in line. that's uncertain at the moment. >> yeah, those don't sound li...

Healthcare in a big way. another piece we are still fighting for that is still in here is money to cover the medicaid coverage gap for people in states where governors, republican governors have refused to expand medicaid. that's a lots of our southern states, but it's a big opportunity. >> absolutely, if the american people can find their way to the ballot box. we bring in one of your colleagues, thank you very much, congresswoman jaya is pal. now we have another congresswoman. i imagine you have been busy, you heard your colleague talk about what's in the build back better plan and the infra...