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Safety net package gets an agreement between the house and president biden. i spoke moments ago to congressman bowman of new york. let's play what he had to say. >> infrastructure vote, do you believe it will happen tomorrow? if it happens, what will the end game be? >> i don't know. we'll see if it happens before the build better act, i think it will be votesed down. i know it will be volted down. but we'll see what happens. still a lot of hours in the day to negotiate where we are. >> now, there is real consternation among centrist democrats who want necessary two bills to be separated. they...

>> that's right. one big take away from speaker pelosi is she's not guaranteeing that infrastructure vote will happen tomorrow, thursday as was initially planned. she said one step at a time. she also said they want to get legislative language on that separate multitrillion build back better act as she called it. it's the big holdup for everything right now. a group of dozens of progressive lawmakers in the house of representatives have threatened to vote down that infrastructure bill until there is agreement on that build back better bill. they're deeply frustrated with the senate, specifical...

They will block that infrastructure bail unless that reconciliation bill that has social spending and tax plans put forward by president biden is good to go. a lot of questions on capitol hill right now whether the infrastructure vote will even happen tomorrow, how democrats will go forward with an acting president's agenda. they are honestly a lot of question wrecks here and things are moving very, very rapidly as tamara's scheduled vote quickly approach as. tamara's scheduled vote quickly approach a— approach as. could indeed so. chicken can — approach as. could indeed so. chicken can on...

Tomorrow because this is coming in the face of progressives who are openly revolting. >> you're a hard no tomorrow? >> i'm a hard no tomorrow. i'm an absolute no, you can write it on the wall with cori bush next to it. i am a no. >> just to be clear, sir, you're -- you're a no on infrastructure noerm? >> well, if it comes to the floor for a vote without the build back better act, yes. >> okay. if they all mean what they say, then the bipartisan deal is dead and tomorrow's vote will fail because on the senate side, the votes are simply not there for that $3.5 trillion spending bill. it's just n...

Election. >> we're obviously at a precarious and important time in these discussions. >> reporter: progressives are promising to sink mr. biden's key infrastructure bill tomorrow in the house if there's no deal on their priority: his massive $3.5 trillion social spending bill. standing in the way are two senate democrats, arizona's kyrsten sinema and west virginia's joe manchin, whom the president has negotiated with numerous times in recent days. >> i'm looking forward to having good negotiations in a good-faith manner, okay. >> reporter: and tonight, senator manchin is doubling down, calling...