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Kindergarten needs to be fixed. i agree. i see how much we pay for child car. fortunately we can afford it but not everybody can afford it. if you're trying to do your job and contribute to the economy by doing your part, there should be some measure of child care but to not have a work requirement is absolutely mind-blowing and to not actually require the individuals to bring something to the table in order to get that assistance is also mind-blowing. one final point, i know you're there in a republican state there, will, i'm in a very democrat state here in connecticut. connecticut, in all l...

>> so for a child tax credit, does it have to have some sort of a work requirement for you to be able to support the broader build back better package? >> i've looked and talked about all the different issues on build back better but the bottom line is you're talking about the child tax credit, if you have a credit, that means you've had to earn -- have to have earnings, and to have earnings you can't do that until you decide if you have any liabilities, and if you have liabilities you off set that with a cred i. the child tax credit is still in place until 2025, the $2,000, so if people think...

There's different concerns that we had right now that we haven't had for a while. inflation is a concern, still over 6%, and the geopolitical unrest that we have and i think the president has been doing a job trying to talk to putin and calm things down and letting him know where these are. these are all challenges, guys, and these are all expensive challenges, so that's where i am on that. there's been no conversation. >> on bbb, on the child tax credit, are you a hard no on ensuring -- >> chilled tax credit is still there as i'm understanding basically. >> are you a hard no on ensuring incom...

All of this excess spending has a real life implication and that real-life implication is it drives up prices by depreciating the value of the currency. >> charles: having said this, you think some sort of deal will be made? >> well, i wouldn't be surprised if they arrived at something that something would be significantly less than the $5 trillion true cost of the build back better plan. it would be something that manchin insists be tied to a work requirement, that it be means tested so that it doesn't go to wealthy people and "paid for." that is to say there has to be a tax or some kind of c...

Want to, you know, require or make a work requirement or not, so the best shot for democrats right now i think what democratic senior aides, democratic lawmakers are still hoping, is that everyone can kind of cool off after the christmas break and that particularly joe manchin and president biden can come back to the negotiating tabling in january. >> john, i wanted to ask you, cooled off all the time. congresswoman jayapal a critical player had an opinion piece in "the washington post" where she said in part taking an executive action will also make clear to those who hindered build back bett...