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Senate Votes To Advance Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill - YouTube
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more now on today's other big story just
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moments ago 17 republicans
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joined all democrats in voting to move
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forward on a procedural motion
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to debate a bipartisan infrastructure
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bill announced earlier today
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now agreement is just the first hurdle
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what comes next is a treacherous
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marathon filled with landmines that may
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or may not lead to a final passage
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take for example what happened earlier
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today arizona senator kirsten cinema
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a key democratic negotiator of the
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bipartisan deal
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finally admitted that she does not
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support
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the 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation
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spending package in its current form
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now this could be a problem for the
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progressive members of the democratic
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party who were willing to sacrifice
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a number of issues in order to get the
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bipartisan infrastructure deal
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done but this was only with the
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understanding that more would be
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addressed in the reconciliation package
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with me now is nbc news national
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political reporter sahil kapoor sahil
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busy day on capitol hill before we get
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into the politics of this though i think
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it's important for the folks at home
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to understand what exactly is in this
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bill
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absolutely tiffany this is a big vote
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for the bill a major breakthrough for a
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piece of legislation that senators have
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tried to move
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for quite a while now and here's what it
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includes it's 550 billion dollars
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in new spending on infrastructure
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projects that includes
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roads and bridges that includes highways
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it includes public
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transit there's about 65 billion dollars
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in here for new broadband it includes
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water infrastructure as well there's a
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lot in here
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that every american from coast to coast
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will experience on some level
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if this passes it has not passed the
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senate yet this was just the first vote
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but you had 17 republicans
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voting with 50 out of the 50 senate
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democrats to move forward with this
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that is not just the core five
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republicans who are negotiating this
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bill it's not just moderates like susan
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collins and lisa murkowski
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it is conservatives too it is mitch
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mcconnell the senate republican leader
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who has self-styled
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himself as a grim reaper of progressive
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legislation says this deal
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should move forward and he appears open
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to the final product here so
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a big deal here for uh one of president
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biden's top priorities
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on a series of projects that have long
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had bipartisan support tiffany
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well it's a big deal for president biden
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but it seems to uh hit a sour note with
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some members of the
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progressive wing of the party uh i want
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you to show uh a picture uh or a tweet
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that aoc
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uh responded to when it came to the
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cinema news that she would not support
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reconciliation it says good luck taking
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your own party's investment on child
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care
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climate action and infrastructure while
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presuming you'll survive a three vote
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house margin especially after choosing
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to exclude members of color
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from negotiations and calling that a
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bipartisan
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accomplishment she wasn't alone there
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congressman peter defazio
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called this bill crap so if you have
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that
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kind of sentiment in the progressive
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wing of the party how will this impact
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the infrastructure bill overall this is
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going to face
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a real hurdle once it gets to the house
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tiffany and here's how democratic
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leaders are trying to finagle this
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there's a 550 billion dollar bipartisan
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deal which
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includes infrastructure that's surface
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transportation that's highways and roads
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and bridges
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what i just talked to you about there is
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a separate bill this reconciliation bill
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that's just a fancy term for this
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a major safety net expansion that
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president biden is looking at
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passing that includes money for child
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care elder care climate change
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investments it includes health care
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spending that would expand medicare
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benefits to include
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dental and vision and hearing aids and
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potentially also lower
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the eligibility age that second piece is
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the biggest priority of progressives and
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speaker nancy pelosi is on the side of
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the progressive caucus
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and saying that the house is not going
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to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure
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deal
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until the senate passes both bills that
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is her leverage that is her way of
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saying that all 50 democratic senators
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had better get on board
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with those other roughly three trillion
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dollars in president biden's priorities
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before the house moves while some of the
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issues you mentioned disproportionately
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impact communities of color and we just
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want to note as aoc said there were no
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people of color a part of this
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negotiation so we will certainly keep
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our eye on it
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thank you so much
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