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Xfinity xfi. so powerful, it keeps one-upping itself. can your internet do that? when last we left our legislative drama until halls of congress, house progressives had just pulled off something incredible, indeed unprecedented in the 15 years i've been covering congress. they held the line and it worked. progressives stopped that bipartisan infrastructure
Still equivocated on that. senator sinema is less upset about that than the fact that joe biden betrayed her. if you remember back in june when the president announced the bipartisan deal he threatened to veto it and he walked back the veto threat and promising two things. he wouldn't link the infrastructure bill to the massive reconciliation bill and two, that he would fight with vigor to get the infrastructure bill passed. he betrayed -- he betrayed her on both those fronts. he went to congress and on friday and told the house progressives that they had his blessing to block the bill until t...
Is not a stand of fiscal responsibility. it's things the congress has already voted to spend, and filibustering it. which requires getting 10 republican votes. and in this circumstance, that's virtually mission impossible unless they back down. we've had democratic senates raise the debt ceiling for republican presidents, including for president trump. so this is hypocritical. it is dangerous. and it's not remotely normal. don't get fooled into thinking it is. >> kirsten, we're not just talking about the debt ceiling here, the debt ceiling standoff. biden's entire agenda is in jeopardy tonight...
. president biden named a new price tag for his infrastructure bill telling house progressives it could get passed between 1.9 and 2.2 bucks. schumer said it must be raised this week. treasury secretary yellen saying this morning "there is no time to wait." >> failing to pay any of our bills become due would be catastrophic. >> mike is in michigan where president biden will be visiting today and also with us, john.
House Progressives held their ground this week and denied a vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill until a deal on a larger human infrastructure deal could be reached. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined NBC’s Mehdi Hasan to discuss where negotiations stand. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez also talked about her controversial ‘present’ vote on additional funding for Israel's Iron Dome defense system.