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To have to come down from that number, which is the first time we're hearing that. what will they come down to? is that 1.5 trillion, 2 or all the progressives satisfied with that? we heard bernie sanders say that they have already come down significantly to the 3.5. so what are they willing to do? that opens up a new set of questions. what gets cut. >> neil: as you said, the president made it very clear leaving capitol hill, doesn't matter if it's in six minutes, six days, six weeks, we'll get it done. but there's a lot of moving parts here including whole debt ceiling issue. we're bumping ag...

It means you would get cnot get checks and the debt would go through the floor. >> you have to deal with republicans who look them straight in the eye and say, we're not doing this. they have to find a way through. mitch mcconnell said in the beginning, put it in this economic package. you can pass that along party lines and democrats can do this themselves. they don't want to do that, number one, and number two, that takes time. they don't have a lot of time right now. >> this is the most dysfunctional town, or capitol, in my view, so the government would shut down tomorrow and it looks like ...

Handle at this time. the administration facing negotiations over trillions of dollars, about 5.5 trillion according to the "wall street journal"'s estimate of what all of this would cost. there's also the threat of government shut down. then you is a debt ceiling issue that comes down in the middle of october. the controversial vaccine mandate, which you're hearing about in a lot of different corners across the country. the president says he's in favor of the mandate. peter doocy working hard to follow all of this and cover it for us from the white house. hi, peter. >> martha, good afternoon. ...

Is the real answer to how this debt ceiling issue is attacked. maria: let's walk through the plans in terms of the reconciliation bill. i want to get your take on the tax increases that they posed like to push through there and then i want to get into this item on bank surveillance because i know that it's not in the bill right now, but they still want to double the size of the irs. first, congressman, walk us through the tax increases that you're expecting in this reconciliation bill. who gets taxed? >> yeah, i've never seen washington spend so much to kill so many american jobs, to raise pri...

Is the real answer to how this debt ceiling issue is attacked. maria: let's walk through the plans in terms of the reconciliation bill. i want to get your take on the tax increases that they posed like to push through there and then i want to get into this item on bank surveillance because i know that it's not in the bill right now, but they still want to double the size of the irs. first, congressman, walk us through the tax increases that you're expecting in this reconciliation bill. who gets taxed? >> yeah, i've never seen washington spend so much to kill so many american jobs, to raise pri...