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Month. if you need insulin, it's not like optional. you need insulin. now under this bill, the costs for anyone who needs insulin will be capped at $35 a month for your insulin, finally. the first ever federal paid leave program, you have a family member who's sick, an older parent or grandparent who had some sort of medical crisis, or maybe you got the happy news of a new baby in the family. four weeks paid family and medical leave, the first federal family and medical leave program ever in this country. also preschool. preschool now available for all kids in the country for all 3 and 4-year-...

Strong case in the affirmative for what's in this package, not what was cut out of the package. he originally asked for $3.5 trillion, lost priorities like two years of free community college for everyone in america, lost the paid leave program, which even as late as last week he thought would survived in reduced form. he's going to talk about $1.75 trillion of investments in education, universal precare, expanded pell grants, health care, strengthen obamacare, strengthened medicare through additional dental benefits, in children, expanded child tax credit, housing, new money for affordable ho...

That. there is a question how to get it to a level that joe manchin will give a thumb's up to. one is to take those perhaps and pair them back in each way. this one you need an income qualification. this one we'll only have for a year or two. the other way is choose two or three or four and do those big and permanent and you are making the argument for the latter. why? >> because half measures are not going to be seen by the public as a way that government is restoring its capability to function in their interest. when you look at paid leave program, it used to be under the family act which is...

Going to, and it's just a matter of figuring out, well, if not that kind of revenue, this kind of revenue, if not that length of a paid leave program, this length of a paid leave program. they seem to be in the process of fitting those jigsaws together. >> manu, biden on the senate tradition of the filibuster, not now but maybe in the future. what does he mean? what was he getting at last night? >> reporter: yeah, that has been the big question about what will happen to some of the signature initiatives that joe biden has pushed, namely to overhaul voting laws as well as a major fiscal deadlin...

To convince them challenging him is not an option. a lot of democrats will say perhaps joe biden won the presidency a lot more because of who he's not than what he was saying. so i think him accomplishing that task, this bill is going to rise and fall on that. >> there was not a lot of negotiating and governing during the trump presidency. this is just the go it alone plan. medicare and obamacare expansion, paid leave program, expanded child tax credit, clean energy tax breaks, two years free community college. that would be the roots of a wide-ranging democratic agenda. >> this is a once in a...