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Wisconsin democratic congressman. for our purposes, thankfully he's also on the appropriations committee. congressman, are you guys going to fund the government? >> well, first thanks for having me, garrett. we will. i think there's going to be an extension probably to mid january to give us a little more time. look, any time you have a 50/50 senate, less than a hand vote of vote margin in the house, it's like juggling cats on a high wire with a fire under you and a head wind. nothing is to do in congress these days. we're going to need a little more time while we're finishing build back bette...

Here. they don't have the votes to pass that bill. we will see if they are able to execute this strategy, because you know the philosophy here by the liberals has been to marry those two bills together and it just the best possible dome a couple of moments they put out of the statement, because these moderates are saying they want s what the progressive say. "if six of our colleague still want to wait for a score, we would wait on both bills together." they only have a three vote margin, so if you have six holdouts, that is a problem. and this dynamic here with the progressives going against t...

Vote so far. you can see they're all democratic counties which means that most of the votes still to come in is from these areas including places like hudson county, new jersey, where phil murphy has 73% of the vote, just 81% in, essex, nearby, newark, the biggest urban county, murphy, 73%, just 84% in. so you can expect over the next couple of days as they get more of the mail vote counted and it grows, his margin will grow. again, a win is a win. democrats are thrilled about that. what they're not so thrilled about here is the margins. let me show you. again, 35,000, about 1.4%. i want to co...

Democrats here. if you go back in time. still under performing what the democrat was four years ago when he hand-- he won handily. here's the challenge. if you are at 75, 78, you think boy, when you see so many of the places at 95, it's getting hard. >> true. >> it's richmond city, 95%. and 95% here. you come down here to charles city county. the last thing you are looking at is down here, we have talked about it tonight. you flip the playbook, look at the democratic areas. 75%, so, there's more votes here. you are looking at 59,000 vote margin where we are now. >> what is the margin right now...

Is that separated within the ville sack better act or within the bills act better act. >> are you building an infrastructure most of the day? have you made that decision? >> so are you holding an infrastructure vote today? that sounds like it's a no. beta-1 so that's the critical question. she did say they are moving forward with the vote. i thought chad's question about the progressives, that's not much of an answer on behalf of the house speaker. when infrastructures he said this is professional, let's do it in a timely fashion. but can you do it given the vote margin in the house?