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Earlier this week. i'm told he's going to continue that engagement until there is a deal. the pressure is on because remember, that infrastructure package passed through the senate. they just needed the house to vote on it, but progressives wouldn't move on it until they had a deal on this second piece of it, this social security net that also aims to deal with the climate crisis. now, for his part, president biden and officials here behind the scenes say he wants to make change. that's why the original package topped $2 trillion, actually $3 trillion, but now it's nearly half of that, jose, s...

This. one thing that struck me, eva, even progressive leader pramila jayapal said she might be open to voting for the infrastructure package with just a framework for the budget deal as opposed to the law on paper. that's been the ultimate tension point here, the progressives wouldn't vote for one without the other. do you see that as a major breakthrough? >> it is a significant term of events. a few weeks ago they were saying both bills or they're not moving forward with either. this illustrates the pressure that they feel, that it has been months and months of basically standing in the same ...

And we know that the republican party is far more united, it is basically the party of trump with the exception of a few never trumpers or those that oppose trump. but it has a much more united front at this moment and the democrats don't. and they will have to work on this because there is the perception that the democrats don't trust one another. and that was why the progressives wouldn't help support that infrastructure bill unless they got some sort of assurances from the president that they would get support for their big safety net package. so this is something that the democrats will ha...