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We are and have agreed jointly on about roughly $70 billion of funds that were not unspent that will be redeployed to help pay for this infrastructure package. so -- martha: what do you say to the criticism from senator scott -- >> the challenge is, martha, you have folks that want to make big, bold statements but sometimes don't want to roll up their sleeves, get into the he details and make the very hard choices about where we find these pay-fors. martha: senator scott and others said they didn't have a bill to vote on last week. here's what senator schumer said about his intention and timel...

For small businesses. we are and have agreed jointly on about roughly $70 billion of funds that were not unspent that will be redeployed to help pay for this infrastructure package. so -- martha: what do you say to the criticism from senator scott -- >> the challenge is, martha, you have folks that want to make big, bold statements but sometimes don't want to roll up their sleeves, get into the he details and make the very hard choices about where we find these pay-fors. martha: senator scott and others said they didn't have a bill to vote on last week. here's what senator schumer said about h...

>> yeah, and the historical precedent for this kind of myth-making, almost always leads to absolute disaster. congressman, i do want to get in a question about a separate issue. there are two massive infrastructure packages coming together in the senate. there is a bipartisan bill and a budget resolution that would unlock reconciliation. bernie sanders, the senate budget committee chair, says he is confident he can get all 50 democratic senators onboard to pass a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. you are in leadership and on the powerful house ways and means committee. based on your conversat...

What is all of this, this spike and this worry doing to the rest of the biden agenda, is it enough to derail or merely distract? >> that hasn't happened yet. certainly at this point the real focus from policy perspective, beyond covid for the biden administration is infrastructure, they're feeling optimistic that even though this process to get these two separate infrastructure packages, bipartisan bill, and the democratic led package to focus on what they call human infrastructure, that that is moving forward. but i think to peter's point, there is now i think a bit more of a question mark ab...

>> and julie, because we live in the real world, because we live in the age of the requirement to walk and chew gum especially those in government, what is all of this -- this spike and this worry doing to the rest of the biden agenda? is it enough to derail or merely distract? >> well, that hasn't happened yet. i mean certainly at this point the real focus from a policy perspective beyond covid for the biden administration is infrastructure. and they're feeling optimistic that even though this process to get these two separate infrastructure packages, the bipartisan bill and then the democrat...