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Bipartisan infrastructure plan which faces its first votes this week. that is in addition to a $3.5 trillion budget resolution with many details there still to be worked out. joining us now are john harwood and arlette saenz on this. it's great to see you both this morning here in studio. >> welcome. >> nice set. >> where are we on these agreements? >> well, really this could be a make or break moment for the biden white house this week as so much of the president's domestic agenda hinges on these two infrastructure packages. senate majority leader chuck schumer really set these deadlines for ...

Agreement with senator manchin on a different package, which contains so many of the basic voting rights. continuing to finalize that. we have the house starting the john lewis act in the house. here is one thing we haven't talked about. we have the infrastructure packages. the build back better packages. we're working on it with the biden administration. the first is bipartisan and the second most likely, of course, be a democratic package through another process called reconciliation. we can put election infrastructure funding along with housing and child care and the like and do what we can...

Only bill. it is a very tough period for the senate majority leader in particular, chuck schumer, what's the game plan for him? >> he has a very difficult job in the next few weeks. and time is running out. you know, they have a summer deadline for getting the infrastructure packages through. self-imposed deadline, i should say. and as you know, kasie, and anyone else who covers congress, they move very slowly, particularly in packages of this size and magnitude. i think this week in particular is going to be a big week to see, one, they have to write the bills, particularly the bipartisan bil...

Majority or a controlling number of people. so walking out during the end of the session was an important move by democrats, much lauded by everybody watching who was supportive of voting rights, but, quite frankly, there's not much more they can do to stop this in the special session. >> right. it's an important point. jake, we are sitting here on friday -- this was a short holiday week -- but congress is coming back starting next week and we're going to be halfway through july at this point, and chuck schumer in the senate has promised that they're going to put potentially, at least one, pot...

We are going to deliver on them. >> do you have any concerns about senator joe manchin and the way he's approached this process? he's really in many ways a one-man senate that is going to determine the fate of all of this. >> there's a lot of stakeholders, senate, house, white house involved in these negotiations. it is going to be a multi-faceted process. my focus right now is ensuring the excellent infrastructure bill we just passed in the house, which is making historic generational investments in transit and fix fixing our infrastructure, ensuring clean water really become the nucleus of t...