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Executive action to pass components of the build back better legislation. is this something that the white house would consider or thinks is a realistic possibility to pass some of these elements? >> i haven't had a chance to discuss representative jayapal's call with our legislative team. i'm not aware of that being undiscussion. we have used executive action for a range of steps to make a range of progress. the president has not hesitated to do that. legislation makes it permanent. a lot of value in that. i can see if it's something more under consideration. >> regarding communications with ...

Towards senator manchin and specifically the statement that was released on thursday, thursday evening and which the read or the assessment was that the senator thought that that statement blamed him in a way that wasn't in keeping with the approach that he and the president had been dealing with? >> i have not yet read his article. it's been a busy day. i will tell you that our intention if you look back to thursday was to provide an update on build back better. it is now a secret where there's opposition to build back better moving forward and where there's support, which is the vast majorit...

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This economy downtime in the past. i think where we disagree is that we obviously view chair powell and let's not forget lael brainard who has been nominated for vice chair. she has been a great voice for financial regulation. but we think chair powell is also going to be and continue to be implementing the kind of wall street oversight that this president i think holds to be a very important characteristic for a fed chair. i should mention that powell's support is quite widespread. representative jayapal and the congressional caucus were congratuling powell and brainard. cha chairs the bankin...

Or this larger economic climate package. that that she was going to put on the table, there was a small group of moderates that said, no, we want to see the congressional budget office, nonpartisan accounting, a score, if you will, how much is that going to cost? so pelosi came back said rwell, let's vote on infrastructure and kicked this other one down the road. that did not sit well with the head of the progressives. representative jayapal. so she said she and her progressive caucus had at least 20 that were going to vote against infrastructure. finally, how this was all resolved, at the end...