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You're going to see dental care vouchers, that's the president last night laying out an alternative to something that has fallen out of the package which is a medicare expansion that includes things like dental, vision, and hearing. but also we're seeing in this bill funding for childcare centers, climate change funding, elder care provisions. also drawing your attention to increases to pell grants, because this is, again, another one of the solutions to something that fell off the negotiating table. the president on the campaign trail was outspoken about the fact that he wanted to do a free c...

Spending underway with much more to come. >> seems like for years it was house speaker pelosi was the definition of celebrity politician who both sides would rally around. she becomes an emblem of scary democrat but it does seem that she still remains that. aoc seems to be the new face of that tactic. two phases that -- two faces that we see a lot is sinema and manchin, negotiations for the bipartisan infrastructure deal and democrats reconciliation program. we have representative dingell saying they received too much attention. you guys are reporting the two of them are clashing on climate

Pathway to citizenship in their $3.5 trillion reconciliation program. they're saying not so fast. cnn's jasmine wright is in washington. this ruling on immigration, another blow to the biden agenda so what happens now? >> yeah, that's right, christine. it's a major loss for the president after firstly a rough couple of days because a pathway to citizenship is a key part of his agenda. it's something he ran on. it's something he and democrats thought they would be able to get past in this democrats only social spending net expansion package and that would be passed with 51 votes, all democrats ...

With us. >> i'm excited about it, i'm also thinking about some of the obstacles that are in front of us, you have a debate within your caucus from progressives and moderates and we saw it just recently with regards to the drug prescription component of the reconciliation program. where you have moderate democrats concerned about jobs and you have progressive democrats concerned about climate in the southern part of the state, how do you navigate those differences in order to pass the build back better plan? >> so far if you look at the first ten months of this year, speaker pelosi has done thi...

Example, the $600 billion, it's really only 10% in various areas of what the president has been trying to do. so in the build it back better reconciliation program, it has more of 80% of clean electricity, and 50% deals with the economy-wide carbon emissions reduction which helps preserve and protect the earth. >> so, chairman meeks, in this reconciliation package, though, is there money to specifically address the infrastructure issues in your district? because we're talking about a centuries old city with aging infrastructure and housing that, you know, as you were talking about, people livi...