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Democratic leaders failed to convince some of their own members to vote in lockstep on the $1.2 trillion bill.

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Yellow school buses go electric around the country, ports and airports, obviously ports deservedly getting a lot of attention right now. >> and six progressive democrats voted no on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, standing firm on their desire to have it moved together with the build back better act. but the bill also ended up getting support from 13 house republicans helping it get to the president's desk. republican congressman marjorie taylor greene lashing out at her colleagues on twitter she writes republicans who hand over their voting card to nancy pelosi to pass biden's communist t...

We were -- we're going to this live tonight because we're not sure. we are literally trying to figure out live on tv whether or not they are going to proceed to these votes. what we expect to happen, at least what president biden asked democrats to do tonight is to pass the structure bill, which would then conceivably go to president biden's desk tonight since it's already passed the senate. also to pass -- to take a vote to advance the build back better legislation, the larger pooes of legislation. we know house progressives insists that they cannot go separately, they must go together. we al...

On the democratic side of the aisle. they don't need these progressives. where the hell are the republicans? thank god in the end 13 of them stepped forward. for the latest we go to cnn white house correspondent john harwood. john, what do we know of the president yesterday working the phones and really putting skin in the game to get this across the finish line? >> look, he decided and speaker pelosi decided that they needed to move right now. that, of course, was accent waited by the results in virginia and new jersey but also the product of months of negotiation that had dragged on a long t...