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Once-in-a-century that will fix everything from water, broad band, gateway tunnel between new york and new jersey. you don't hold that up and hold it hostage while we're working on another piece of legislation. >> if this falls apart, will progressives be blamed? >> reporter: it's hard to see -- it's hard to see right now who will get the blame at the end of the day. a lot of this, remember, just stems from a simple fact that members of the same party, moderates and progressives, do not trust each other. this is why progressives felt they had to use that bipartisan infrastructure package as ba...

And you know, there might be a good use for that, right? but we are about to see the democrats try to pass a $3.5 trillion bill here in the united states. how much will be left over to these -- to do these projects around the world? >> and they can't even seem to come to agreement on it. they are literally in -- have a gun to their own heads. they can't pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill the president agreed to and the senate agreed to in a bipartisan fashion. they can't get it out of the house because they hold it hostage for a dl* 3.5 trillion bill that will never get passed. if you loo...

It's a significant piece of legislation and we'll spend the next months doing that but to hold up the infrastructure package that was bipartisan, made no sense to us. we got to get those shovels in the ground and people to work and that's what we're really fighting for. talking about 2 million jobs a year for the next 10 years to hold it hostage just didn't make any sense to some of us and we fought for it and got a date certain and kept those two pieces of legislation separate. >> cory bush and others still say that they won't support this unless it's voted on together. >> well, it's coming t...

Our audience, and maybe your host, can you please explain what is going on. >> okay, without getting too much into confusing process detail, they are having a process fate, just as congressman jeffries was talking about, which is a battle over whether or not to consider, what is already a real bill, that has broad bipartisan support, meaning enough republicans in the senate, enough in the house, to pass and be signed into law quickly, it is a them a done deal, whether or not to pass it first, or to hold it hostage, to this reconciliation package, which is the word that the viewers have heard f...

Meaning enough republicans in the senate, enough republicans in the house, to pass and be signed into law quickly. it is pretty much a done deal. whether or not to pass that first or to sort of hold it hostage to this reconciliation package which is the word that the viewers have heard for so long, a special process to wrap around something so that it can pass through the senate with 51 votes instead of 60. in that bill are the social welfare programs the democrats are calling human infrastructure. the elder care, the childcare, the two years of community college, the climate provisions, the e...