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Spending between a bipartisan infrastructure bill and what they're calling a human infrastructure bill will address supply chain problems and bring down inflation. >> we've got to get people back into the workforce. what's going to get people back into the workforce, providing them with child care. my view is that the bill exactly is tackling inflation. >> reporter: democrats have set an end of the month deadline for themselves to pass both bills. the problem for the president right now is that he can't get his party to agree on how to do it. todd, carley. todd: lauren blanchard kicking us off...

Rose 5th 2%. >> this isn't just a matter of supply. this is a matter of supply and demand. every item you see, every container on every ship that is waiting at anchor in the ports of l.a. and is long beach or anywhere else is there because an american company or consumer purchased it x. that's because demand has surged. retail sales are off the charts. >> reporter: as for the empty shelves and rising prices, transportation secretary pete buttigieg says the administration began looking at supply chain issues earlier in case something like this happened,s but inflation at a 13-year high. >> infl...

About how this goes forward for all policies that are meant to help the poor and the working poor, low income people. is there a way in which you apply them universally and then you take them -- take that money back from the wealthy through tax policy? because how do you make sure that the rich don't get benefits that they don't need? >> look, we obviously need to be taxing the very wealthy in our society and the biggest corporations in a way that is fair. and that means we have to increase those rates. there is a way to get at that excess in terms of wealth in society to fund essential govern...

And so this is what democrats do. this is who they are. maria: it's pretty incredible because there's so many unintended consequences, i assume it's unintended, the fact that people don't want to go back to work because they're counting on further checks, whether it be child care checks or the other money in the bill. do you think we will see a vote on october 31st for this and let me put up ron klain's retweet of jason furman, saying that most of the economic problems we're facing including inflation, supply chains, are high class problems, senator. this is what they say, this is high class p...

Build-back better program have to be accessible to people in -- but in your latest op-ed you wrote that means testing which limits these benefits based on income would actually prevent more people from accessing these programs. i just want a quote from you, in theory, means testing excludes the undeserving rich in practice it often excludes the most vulnerable poor who aren't always able to jump through the required hoops to prove their eligibility. can you tell me a little bit about what you mean here? most people say if you means test, that means the wealthy don't get benefits that they don'...