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Debt ceiling and infrastructure talks taking place behind closed doors. house speaker nancy pelosi still planning a thursday vote even though progressives are threatening to scrap the entire agenda. they want cradle to grave to pass simultaneously. let's bring in cnn political analyst rachel, the book where no one, no one in washington is sleeping this week. politico reported this. several senior democrats are also hoping biden will more forcefully weigh in on the infrastructure vote thursday, publicly declaring that the bill needs to be passed by the house on that day. what more can the pre...

Pelosi can change her mind in terms of how the vote schedule works, she can force the vote but also said she is not going to put it on the floor unless it has the votes to pass. republicans are not going to give the speaker much if any help, they want democrats to fight this out and do this on their own. where this goes next is unclear but it is a major reversal. she's moving from siding initially with progressives to siding with the centrists in trying to get this infrastructure bill passed and she and president biden have a lot of work to do in terms of getting the votes to make sure it actu...

Conscious uncoupling. this is what centrist democrats have wanted for months, finish the infrastructure bill, treat it separately from the mega bill, celebrate, go home, come back and deal with that several trillion dollar package. that means speaker pelosi is moving closer to having that vote for that senate passed infrastructure bill. progressives have threatened to vote down that bill, as many as 40 to 50 of them because they believe that this is a package deal and worry if the infrastructure bill passes without that multi-trillion dollar bill that the centrist democrats will shrink or kill...

Often in where the house passes a bill, and then we send it to the senate and the senate says no we don't like it, and they do something, and they send it back to us and we conference them that takes a very long time, and puts people in a difficult position because house members don't want to vote for something that the senate isn't going to vote for we actually have said we're okay with that. let's pre-conference that, which means every part, the white house, senate and the house all have to agree, and that is the conversation that is finally happening because there is a deadline, because we ...

With president biden's agenda hanging in the balance. lawmakers have a lot to do in essentially 72 hours and this morning they do not appear to be getting any closer to getting it done. overnight speaker pelosi made it clear she does not plan to hammer out the details or the price tag of the massive human infrastructure bill before holding a vote on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. despite a whole lot of pressure from progressive members of the party, the speaker says the thursday infrastructure vote is still on track. the big question, does she have enough votes to get it ...