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Good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. here's what's happening as we approach 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pacific. on capitol hill, congress is headed toward a budget showdown. both the house and senate facing multiple deadlines this coming week. the house is set to vote on infrastructure. right now, a virtual mark-up is just getting under way of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that has moderate and progressive democrats split. this as the tensions on the hill are especially high after two members of congress got into a shouti...

That they can say, well, if we can't know for sure, if our elections are secure, then we have to pass more laws to make sure they're secure. it's almost, in a sense, the way that republicans insist that there's no way to deal with immigration until the border is 100% secure. that's an impossible ask. there's no way to crack down on voting to make it even more secure than it already is, i feel like, in the way that will satisfy the people who are calling for these audits and that's the game. it's an impossible ask, and without the ability to actually meet that goal, you keep restricting and res...

Going to vote for it because you're not going to vote against child care and paid family leave and community college and all these top priorities which, by the way, the country desperately needs. and the country overwhelmingly supports. so you know, i think -- i'm also on the education and labor committee. we had a very interesting mark-up last week. we had differences of opinion on many items, but in the final analysis, every democrat voted to move that bill along. so i think you're going to see coming together the way we did on the budget resolution authorization, the way we did on the ameri...

>> we will have a great bill that honors the values of the president and his vision. i don't know what the number will be. we are marking at 3.5. we are not going above that. we have to talk about what does it take? what would you cut? i hope that as people are being looking at numbers that they're weighing the values. >> and she's talking about the mark-up. they are writing this bill right now with the house, ways and means with the congressmen. jim, you know what it's like. they can write when they want and they're keeping one eye, of course, on what can get past the senate. >> you're exactl...

Democrat support on a lot of these amendments. >> there is also a lot of talk happening about the $6 billion in unspent funds appropriated for training the former afghan security forces. rob wittman says congress should use that money for counter terrorism in the region while house minority leader kevin mccarthy said it should go towards bringing those remaining americans home, although ultimately he said it is better left to the ndaa mark-up. we're told to expect a very long night. >> bill: we'll be watching. thank you on the hill. >> we have an inept, incompetent leader starting with joe bid...