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Worked to iron out exactly how much to spend and what programs to spend it on. we get more now from cbs' nancy cordes. >> every bit of it is paid for. >> reporter: the president was in michigan today to sell a plan he now admits must be slashed nearly in half. >> to pose those investments is to be explicit in america's decline. >> reporter: he and house democrats spent the morning discussing what to cut from his signature social spending package in order to secure the votes they need. >> this is like saying pick your favorite child. these are good programs. >> reporter: democrats told the pres...

In the final agenda if they pass it and the infrastructure bill. just for you here in michigan. $17.3 billion to repair highways in the infrastructure bill. $1 million for transportation. if you pass the spending plan, child care costs and free universal prek. the discussion has been is it $3.5 trillion not about child care costs or the climate. but just today from camilla jayapal, for the progressives, she says no, at least 2.5 trillion so the money fight continues. >> the money fight continues, congresswoman jayapal countered with a 2.5 from the $2.9 trillion when president biden gave that f...

There, mike. president biden now says he believes he can get senators manchin and sinema to agree to $2 trillion in the reconciliation bill, significantly less thanprogress progressives wanted. >> reporter: the bill is currently in downsizing mode. the price tag is going to fall below $3 trillion. it's just unclear how low it gets. that's where we see tensions between progressives and centrists. they're trying to frame this conversation around demanding that centrists say what specifically do they want to cut. do they want to cut medicare benefits, universal prek, child

Dental, hearing or pelosi that really wants to see the aca subsidies made permanent. there is a lot they have to get through in what boris said a few weeks, a month if they have an agreement. >> real quick i want to pull up what is in the original plan because extension of the child tax credit, universal prek, subsidized care, free community college. you can get a lot done in $2 trillion but you've promised a lot of things. there is constituencies behind these, the cutting, the shaping, how this bill gets formed will be complex. >> right now they will have huge problems trying to fit this in. ...

Matter if it's 2.5 or 3, it's what is in it. what do you see getting cut back? >> the dental vision component for elderly americans could go. i think the community college piece could go. i think those are a couple of visit couple things that come to my mind. >> what about you, ron? >> well, i guess, the logic is less to remove entirely than play with how long they're in place and try to in someways take the most popular items like the child tax credit, universal prek perhaps, some of the health care and child care subsides and phase them out to save money. you can say look, this monthly payme...