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Trillion reconciliation budget package? i think we have shown a lot of respect toward our colleagues who obviously have a different point of view when it comes to reconciliation. there s been meaningful negotiation that s gone on for weeks. the president has been involved personally. i have never seen a president engage this way since barack obama s days with the affordable care act. we re all in, all aboard. now it s time, i would say, for both senators, make your mark and close the deal. what is it that you want? what is your final goal? it s time to stop talking around it and speak directly to it. you re talking about senator manchin and senator kyrsten sinema? yes, i am. where do you need both of their votes in a 50/50 senate right now. if you lose one of them, it s over. that s right. and i want to be very candid about that analysis is spot on, i don t know of any alternative to it, and everything is tied to it, the future of the bipartisan infrastructure bill is tied ....
Could to stop that. maria: this is where we are. this is what it has come to. i mean, you all have a responsibility. yeah, yeah. maria: to do the work and yet there s so much hatred and upset. tell me about that amnesty element. because now they re just trying to throw whatever they can including the kitchen sink into the $3.5 trillion bill. they they want to actually make illegals legal as part of this. is that even a legal thing to do? i thought a reconciliation budget package must include federal money related items. can they put amnesty in here? i don t think so. but they re going to try. because they don t want to work with us. in 2013, i was part of a bipartisan group that passed a comprehensive immigration bill and we spent $40 billion to secure the border. schumer and durbin voted for a $40 billion border security bill that built walls, did away with catch and release. to my democratic colleagues, if you want to provide legal status ....
Could to stop that. maria: this is where we are. this is what it has come to. i mean, you all have a responsibility. yeah, yeah. maria: to do the work and yet there s so much hatred and upset. tell me about that amnesty element. because now they re just trying to throw whatever they can including the kitchen sink into the $3.5 trillion bill. they they want to actually make illegals legal as part of this. is that even a legal thing to do? i thought a reconciliation budget package must include federal money related items. can they put amnesty in here? i don t think so. but they re going to try. because they don t want to work with us. in 2013, i was part of a bipartisan group that passed a comprehensive immigration bill and we spent $40 billion to secure the border. schumer and durbin voted for a $40 billion border security bill that built walls, did away with catch and release. to my democratic colleagues, if you want to provide legal status ....
Bipartisan infrastructure bill go forward, get voted on, et cetera, and then separately do the reconciliation budget package which won t get any republican support so that you have you ll basically have two victories that way. but if you link them, you might not have the victory you want with the bipartisan deal. the sequencing of these measures is still to be worked out. we had a good constructive democratic caucus lunch today. i believe there is a lot of strong feeling for both measures. what we need to do now is to work on the details. and sometimes they turn out to be the hardest part. this is a high-wear act without a net, and we re working every single day to keep everybody together on the democratic side. i hope that the republicans are making a good-faith effort. i believe they are. in this part of the infrastructure bill that they are going to join us on. i ve looked at the bill, i ve sat in on these meetings. ....