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>> to me, it would suggest a lack of urgency for things they might need would assume everybody knows it's happening. many states decided to spend this money on things that have nothing to do with covid bet on projects they have wanted. >> the irony of that is we are going to this whole infrastructure battle right now. some of the mayors went right t the idea that he needs to fix roads. that's not what the american rescue plan was about, it was about covid and coming out of the pandemic. get one if you could take that money and say to the progressives on the hill, we artie did this and maybe ad...

Their constituents with the key win here. that being said, jim, the white house, this is the strategy that biden has implemented, even before he became president. when it appeared as though certain gaffes or other issues during his presidential campaign would take him down, the white house always sticks to their original strategy, biden usually always sticks to his original strategy. and that was trying to pass these two bills in tandem together knowing that he had to do it that way, because the fact that progressives want a lot of what's in the spending package, his moderate centrist faction ...

Nature, that infrastructure battle that you were just talking about and then ones that are really fundamental to the way government works and functions. both of these spending cliffs, the debt ceiling one that is not typical party politics as usual. that's something that usually both parties can work together on lifting or spending. we've all covered these government shutdowns before. at least this one could be averted in the next coming hours. >> this is wait until the last possible second to then delay things just a little bit more. is this going to affect biden's agenda, all of this when we...

0 up the coverage right now. >> good morning, it's 9:00 a.m., i'm jose diaz-balart in for stephanie ruhle who's on assignment. a massive infrastructure vote, the pressure is on in the house and the senate. senate republicans standing their ground on the debt limit as a rift between democrats appears to grow even wider. also on the hill this morning, in 30 minutes defense secretary lloyd austin, general mark milley and general mckenzie will face another day of questions, this time from members of the house armed services committee. two of the top military officials admitting yesterday they di...

>> reporter: the president's pulled up his continue to plunge, the latest clear politics average his approval rating dropping four points from last month, nearly 10 points from april to below 46%, republicans on the hell are ready for a fight over green new deal politics. >> we talked about infrastructure for a long time what everybody considered infrastructure. where they have gone on the left is to redefine infrastructure to include a lot of anti-fossil fuel green new deal type proposals. >> the infrastructure battle starts later this month when congress returns. one of the residents in our ...