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Free community college, clean energy programs, tax fairness for high income individuals and corporations. fox business susan lee tracking the numbers and joins us now. hello to you. how do you break down 3.5 trillion. >> you have to get past the 1.2 trillion first. it has to go through the house. that will add $250 billion with a b to the deficit over the next decade up until 2030. you have to remember the deficit is already as large as the u.s. economy. that's a lot of money. deficit spending. when you have a lot of debt that also he roads the value of the u.s. dollar. you will have to spend ...

And regulations. >> harris: a lurch toward socialism or is this actually it? the top republican in the senate, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is in focus. let's start here with jackie heinrich on capitol hill to get the latest there. >> good morning, harris. we just heard majority leader schumer on the floor saying he plans the first procedural vote as early as next wednesday. everything from president biden's plans that didn't make it into other legislation this session is included in that bill. you've got universal prek. funding to make college nor affordable. paid family leave, hous...

A law that made new plant regulations possible. the reality is different. republicans that control the house and enough votes to block most legislation in the senate and not to mention president obama's approval rating which is not so high, doesn't give a lot of authority there. do you think history will write about this time in a more positive light? >> i think so. people forget a lot got done in president obama's first term. i think at a time when congress isn't passing a lot you can look back and see what president obama is doing and the seeds he is planting for legislation. i like his prek...

>> i don't know what is happening on the other side of the park. >> neither does de blasio. >> oh, stop. >> i heard. you talk about -- i heard more people laughing about the fact that no snow plows were sent to the upper east side. >> well, it happens. >> joe, this is really, i think, the great central point. do we do arithmetic in this country and pay for things that need to be pay for and can the rich pay a tiny bit more what is needed for poor kids? that is the fight. >> the question is about cuomo at the end of the day. his plan is bad arithmetic? it doesn't add up? >> it doesn't add up at...

Taxpayers have to bear the burden. if you want to argue it practically, if you don't at the front end of the process improve people's incomes and benefits, even just a little, we'll pay on the back end. >> of those three things i mentioned, universal prek and the tax raise and housing, two of them depend in some part on the one, on the tax raise. but you yourself, nor does any mayor have the authority to raise taxes. the state plays a big roll in that, correct? >> of course. >> what's your relationship with cuomo? >> it's great. a very close personal relationship. >> is he going to want to rai...