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Through this. >> do you think it's possible that the price tag will come down? i've heard the number $2 trillion floated as a possible end point. >> first of all, as i said to the president and i heard him say, this is a zero dollar bill, because it's all going to be paid for with taxes on the wealthiest corporations and the wealthiest individuals which makes it more popular than it was even before and it's already very popular. but ultimately, i think it depends on what we put in there. we put our proposal out. it cost $3.5 trillion when you add everything up. if somebody wants to take someth...

Meaning that they can go to pretty much anyone and there are some phaseout that are very tough but these are fundamentally, these are not as a president said, only for the working poor are the people work struggling to buy groceries companies are middle-class entitlements in the commute an example the look of the child care provision, it did have some form of means testing that was tied it to meeting the income around the country originally they got rid of it. so under a low throttle, people earning 300,000 or $400,000 a year, and they have two kids on the point of qualify for thousands of dol...

What exemptions apply. to me, the means testing is it's really a question of how quickly do you want to get the money out, and how many people do you want to be able to benefit? so that doesn't make sense to me to put a bunch of requirements on there or even exemptions for that matter. you have to fill out a 25-page form that takes three and a half hours if you have someone to help you and you happen to speak english. there's all kinds of ways we need to simplify and make programs universal and make sure that people feel the benefit quickly. because the need is urgent. that's what we should be...

Given the resources to do it. if you don't have any work requirements, no means testing on so much of this. >> if 3.5 trillion is agreed to by -- are you going to be the lone vote? >> i don't think i'm the lone vote. i think you know that, too. >> would you be willing to be the lone vote? >> i've said if i can't go home and explain it, i'm not going to vote for it. >> the vaccine mandate, are you supportive? >> the president has done what the president is responsible to do, he's looking out for the most vulnerable. if people are as sick and tired of this pandemic as i am, wearing masks and eve...

Potentially even a little higher but also the long list of demands including some of the key items that democrats particularly progressives have been pushing. whether it's things like the child tax credit, something that the democrats wanted to make permanent, potentially or at least extend it, expand it. he raised concerns about that. limit the child tax credit, universal pre-k, the means testing to ensure that the limit the eligibility of people who could be -- who could get universal pre-k an issue he raised. tuition free community college another major issue for joe biden. he suggested pot...