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reporter: if there was going to be any hurdle, it was going to be house moderates in the democratic party. but we have actually already heard this evening from two key house democrats, mikie sherrill, and josh gottheimer, that they are indeed going to support this package even though it doesn t contain some of the tax provisions that they had previously been demanding. so this is a pretty clear sign that this bill is going to pass the house on friday. speaker nancy pelosi pout out a statement saying they are going to move swiftly on friday to get this bill to president joe biden s desk. and senate majority leader chuck schumer says he thinks that the unity among democrats in the senate is only going to make it easier in the house. all of the 50 democrats in the senate voted for the bill, including the progressive wing of, you know, bernie and elizabeth and eddie markey and people like that, and the conservative wing, the more conservative wing, i think it s going to set a tableau f ....
In the meantime, senator manchin will have to explain to those families paying $1,000 a month why they need to keep paying that instead of $35 for that vital medicine. he will have to explain to the nearly 2 million women who would get the affordable day care they need to return be to work, why he opposes a plan to give them the help they need. maybe senator manchin can explain to millions of children who have been lifted out of poverty in part due to the child tax credit why he wants to end a program that is helping achieve this milestone. we cannot. so there the white house is not holding any punches, taking off the gloves. it wasn t just the president that manchin s comments pissed off. house moderates put their vote on the line for that house bill voting for progressive issues. they didn t want to vote for the bill anyway. senator bernie sanders on the air with jake tapper yesterday, ....
Senate democrats with very different priorities coming from very different parts of this country, and some of them who want this bill passed across the finish line soon think this is their last shot at the pie here. because they think or they fear they may lose control of washington come midterms, so this is really important for them. but look, you have some issues in this bill that don t just range from senator manchin and sinema. senator bernie sanders, the lead progressive in the senate who shepherded the original framework of this legislation has major problems with it, too. just not just in revenue but also in the policies. he has problems with medicaid expansion, for example. he wants to see more of that in the bill. right now, there s just money for hearing. he wants to see vision and dental. on the revenue side, i spoke to you earlier, but with the s.a.l.t. tax, the state and local tax in blue states that house moderates and some progressives wanted in the bill, it will lead to ....
Schumer hopes it will before christmas. by way, house moderates are sticking to that salt tax that s in the bill. house moderates are really unhappy if that s out of the bill but bernie sanderss doesn t like the cap right now because it gives millionaires tax cuts. it s this cobweb where one thing affects the others. is the president realist some of his priorities will be on the chopping block? yeah, he is and to use even more sports metaphors this is now a state of the legislation where ping-pongs back and forth between the house and the senate as things get added, things get taken away but when you heard from the president on monday at that bill signing celebration, really, not just the ceremony, you heard the president really be frank and candid in talking about the fact that, yes, this process has been messy but ultimately this is the way the democracy works. ....
I m very concerned about the s.a.l.t. deduction at a time when we want to be making our tax system more fair, we want to be addressing income inequality, i don t think this is a time to be giving big tax breaks to wealthy individuals. so, we have to work all that out. reporter: yeah, paid family leave there, that s something in the house-passed version of the bill. i m told senator joe manchin just won t budge on that. he won t support it. so that will have to get taken out. a huge priority for democrats and something president biden ran on, by the way, but that other thing that senator tina smith mentioned to you, the s.a.l.t. deduction. that s something house moderates and progressives, by the way, from blue states high state and local tax states, i should say, that s something they wanted in this bill and it s something that progressives like senator bernie sanders and republicans, by the way, also taking a chance to grasp at this, are criticizing, because as i reported, this we ....