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Been taken out to try and appease primarily senators sinema and manchin. universal pre-k. elder care, in. free school meals, in. expanded health care coverage that would include -- excuse me, not include dental and eyeglasses but would include hearing aids. expanded medicare for the hearing services. those are the things that are in. out, and we heard senator sanders talk about this. no mention of paid family leave. no free community college. and again, that expanded medicare coverage for dental and vision and prescription drug reform also out of the bill now. we caught the sort of tail end of...

Childcare. but what is not in it and what i think is even more important to talk about in terms of what the president had really lobbied for and in the end didn't get any kind of paid family leave. there is none of that in the current framework as it stands. there is isn't free community college. there are pell grants that can help with that. then there are also all of the debates over expanded medicare coverage. right now it seems only they'll be able to cover hearing services not dental or vision and then still up for debate, apparently, what could happen with prescription drug reform and lo...

Income level required to get that tax credit. one other option is to change the start or end date of those programs. because this is money over ten years. you could push back on medicare benefits for seniors. don't start them until october 2022. don't start the hearing services until 2022. you take years off, that takes dollars off. many hundreds of billions of dollars off, which could bring down the top line figure. other ways you can do this is looking a at the end dates of them. pay for the programs for five years instead of ten. that's something that's been lost in this debate is the figur...

Cutting the provision that reduces the taxes for family with kids, or you're reducing the number that says we're going to expand medicare to cover vision, dental, and hearing services. my point lawrence, is that people should take responsibility about exactly what it is they're prepared to throw overboard. to throw out of president biden's build back better agenda. rather than just say, oh yeah we're gonna pick a number. yes, we gotta get to a number absolutely right. but how we get to that is important. >> the senator manchin's document, was leaked, seems deliberately last week, on the points...

Certain amount. you'll have more certainty, but understand that what you're calling for is cutting a provision. let's say you're calling for cutting the provision to reduce taxes for families with kids or you're reducing the number that says we're going to expand medicare to cover vision, dental, and hearing services. my point, lawrence, is that people should take responsibility about exactly what it is they're prepared to throw overboard to throw out of president biden's build back better agenda, rather than just say, oh, yeah, we're going to pick a number. yes, we got to get to a number, you...