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president biden is celebrating the
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passage of a key piece of his
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domestic agenda after a late night vote
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on capitol hill the house passed the
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roughly 1.2 trillion dollar
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infrastructure deal friday night on a
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bipartisan basis 13 republicans voted
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yes and six democrats voted no
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the senate passed the bill over the
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summer but it stalled in the house
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progressive democrats waited for
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progress on the president's second
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package which focuses on social programs
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and climate change that bill has still
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not gotten a vote due to new democratic
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disagreements but on saturday the
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president claimed that the
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infrastructure bill is a win for the
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middle class
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and for all of you at home who feel left
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behind and forgotten in an economy
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that's changing so rapidly this bill is
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for you
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the vast majority of the thousands of
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jobs will be created don't require a
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college degree
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there'll be jobs in every part of the
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country
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red states blue states cities small
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towns rural communities tribal
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communities this is a blue collar
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blueprint to rebuild america
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joining me now to discuss this
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legislative legislation is anthony
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adragna he's a reporter for politico
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covering congress
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anthony welcome in addition to jobs the
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president emphasized the
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infrastructure's bill's impact on the
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supply chain and inflation tell us why
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he highlighted these issues in his
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speech and what effect might this bill
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actually have on those problems
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it's a it's certainly a victory lap for
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the president he's been anxious to tout
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something uh legislatively to get
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something done 10 months into his
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administration so i think that's what
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you heard from him this morning
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he's speaking to the issues that are
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front of mind to people we clearly saw
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that in the results on tuesday in
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virginia new jersey the other parts of
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the country so i think president biden's
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trying to say look we hear you we've
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gotten stuff done
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and we're looking to address the issues
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that are in your heads
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in your real lives
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your experiences and so i think that
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explains a lot of what we heard from him
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this morning
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so give us a few major bullet points
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what's actually in this infrastructure
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package
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i think it's pretty remarkable this bill
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has sort of been lost as democrats have
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sort of squabbled amongst themselves but
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it's it's really consequential we've got
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hundreds of billions of dollars in new
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spending in areas from as diverse as
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broadband uh investing and replacing
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lead pipes that give people water in the
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country there's 100 tens of billions of
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dollars to address that
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upgrades to the nation's grid
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infrastructure a massive investment in
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passenger rail um it's really one of the
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biggest if not the biggest
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infrastructure packages we've seen since
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the 1950s and so i think that's why it's
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interesting that it's sort of been lost
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in the the shuffle here as democrats
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continue to argue about this second bill
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but it's really quite a consequential
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piece of legislation one that in most
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congresses you'd you take and say this
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is our capstone work
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so let's dig into that second bill
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democrats are still working on the
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social programs and climate change
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aspects of the president's larger agenda
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chair of the congressional progressive
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caucus pramila jaya paul spoke about
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that legislation friday night let's
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listen
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and let me just say that when we do it
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will be a phenomenal achievement for our
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country to say we're not leaving anybody
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behind
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this rule vote tonight is the beginning
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of the delivering of that promise it is
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actually codifying that promise that our
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colleagues have made to us tonight and
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let me tell you we're going to trust
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each other because the democratic party
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is together on this we are united
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so anthony i think it's significant and
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worth noting that as congresswoman
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jayapal was making those remarks next to
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her was congressman josh gottheimer
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who's a leader in the moderate wing of
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the democratic party to
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the two sides really uh that are at odds
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right now tell us the latest about the
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hold up last night and where democrats
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are expected to go from here
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so i think what you've heard from
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democrats over the past couple days is
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reiterating a position that they've
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heard
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they've been stating for quite a while
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now the moderates have said they want to
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see
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that the economic math checks out here
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the the claim has been that the bill is
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fully paid for they want to see the
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official nonpartisan estimates back that
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up before they're willing to vote for it
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that was verified yesterday they said
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we're not willing to vote for the bill
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without that full information
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i think what you've seen also is this
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sort of mistrust between progressives
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and moderates progressives have sort of
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said
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we're not sure you're going to actually
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be with us and follow through in the end
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on this legislation there's also
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continued uncertainty of course in the
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senate where senator joe manchin
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is expected to exert his will and and
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make further changes to this legislation
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so i think you're right it's quite
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notable to see representative
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scottheimer and jayapal there together
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there's been such mistrust between the
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various ideological factions within them
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within the democratic party throughout
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this process so that was quite a show of
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force of saying look we recognize we
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have both you know they think on
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substance they want to get it done but
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also the political imperative to deliver
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on the bulk of president joe biden's
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agenda and so i think that more than
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anything else is what's driving this
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train forward and what's going to lead
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the party to really try to get to a
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finished product that they can
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pass and then also tout to the american
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people
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so a big sticking point is
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how much this is going to cost tell us
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what's the latest on the plan to pay for
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these packages
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so from from democrats they say
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at least initially they think they have
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the estimates to back up this is going
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to be fully paid for they've got a bunch
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of different new tax structures that are
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going to make the wealthy pay more
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there's obviously prescription drug
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negotiations which is a big piece of
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this they think they finally have that
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worked out
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there's additional irs enforcement
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that's another piece of this you know
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the exact structures are still kind of
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going to be ironed out here as we move
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forward but i think democrats would tell
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you they think they have more than
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enough
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new ways of generating the ways to pay
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for this legislation that's been a key
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part of their argument throughout this
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process and i would expect that to
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remain as things go forward
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all right anthony adragna thank you
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thank you
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