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Hold the final vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. senators will meet at 9:30 this morning. majority leader chuck schumer and minority leader mitch mcconnell expected to speak and the vote will be held at 11:00. the legislation is expected to pass by a wide margin. 19 republicans have already joined all democrats to back the bill, and that number may increase. directly after the final bipartisan infrastructure vote, majority leader schumer says the senate will vote to proceed with the democrat-only budget reconciliation package. speaking of that $3.5 trillion budget plan. the money wou...

0 and once it does start we will take you to the briefing there. also right now, the senate on the cusp of a blockbuster bipartisan break through. it's a big step for president joe biden and something he promised and a lot of folks doubted would actually happen. a major infrastructure bill. in seconds the senate will be holding a final vote to pass, and a live look on the senate floor right now. this is senator tom carper of delaware speaking. we expect senator chuck schumer to address the bill in just a moment. breaking news from the upper chamber. we will go there as well. also, the pandem...

Progressive priorities through the senate on a simple majority vote. >> the most significant legislation for american families since the era of the new deal and the great society. >> reporter: setting up weeks of closed-door negotiations over a package set to include home and childcare, free community college, universal pre-k, paid leave, and even a pathway to citizenship for certain undocumented immigrants. but with the barest majority in both chambers, no easy path ahead as tension ramps up in the house where moderates wrote a letter to speaker nancy pelosi are pressing leaders to pass the i...

Throughout the pandemic and biden has put his foot on the accelerator when it comes to spending. but over the trump years, the republican base quit caring about spending issues. they became much more focused on culture issues. so when you don't flex those fiscal responsibility muscles for so long, they atrophy. this bill is going to pass. republicans are going to vote for it and it's not going to matter to many of them because the republicans that are supporting it are going to vote for it. they are not dependent on donald trump for their political futures. where you'll see the action from are...

>> that's right. that does not mean it's done. as you were saying, you know, there in the intro. part of the hiccup there are a few republicans, specifically a senator from tennessee who has been trying to slow this process down. and really my understanding hesitation from some republicans is that they do not want president biden's agenda entirely to go through. it's been very clear from democrats, both in the house and the senate as schumer himself has said this that once they wrap up this infrastructure vote, he intends to very quickly move on to the $3.5 trillion separate package that will ...