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Infrastructure Bill Nears Senate Passage but 'Progressives' Still Want a $3.5T Budget Busting Social Wish List

Infrastructure Bill Nears Senate Passage but 'Progressives' Still Want a $3.5T Budget Busting Social Wish List Read Transcript


- The bipartisaninfrastructure bill is designed

to bring our infrastructureup to date for a new century.

And that is a significant achievement.

- [Reporter] The majorityleader Chuck Schumer thinks

a final vote could beheld in a matter of days.

The $1 trillion proposal wouldimprove the country's roads,

bridges, ports, and internet connections,

also upgrading passenger railways.

What the White House callsthe largest such investment

since the creation of Amtraknearly a half century ago.

It also seeks to improvethe nation's water supply

and replace every leadwater pipe in the country.

Serious divisions still loomover the bipartisan bill,

chief among them are concerns

the $1 trillion in new spendingis not actually covered

by new revenue and couldadd to the deficit.

The bill came after weeks of haggling

among a bipartisan block of lawmakers,

and for Schumer and progressiveDemocrats, it's not enough.

They're still aimingto pass a $3.5 trillion

social infrastructure bill

that includes massive new social programs.

- That's why soon after this bill passes,

the Senate Democrats will press forward

with a budget resolutionto allow the Senate

to make further historic,vitally important investments

in American jobs, American families,

and efforts to reverse climate change.

- [Reporter] However, that has to pass

through budget resolution,

meaning every Democrat has to support it.

Moderate Democrat Joe Manchinsays it's not a done deal.

- Can't really guaranteeanybody, you know,

and I have not guaranteed anybody

on any of these pieces of legislation.

Would we like to do more?

Yeah, you can do what you can pay for.

- [Reporter] If budgetreconciliation fails,

the whole house of cards could come down

under the protest ofprogressive Democrats.

Representative AlexandriaOcasio-Cortez of New York told CNN

that progressives havemore than enough votes

to block the bipartisaninfrastructure deal in the House

if the Senate doesn't also pass

the sweeping reconciliation bill.

Meanwhile, another headache for Democrats,

the moratorium on evictionsexpired over the weekend

meaning millions could bekicked out of their homes.

Dale Hurd, CBN News.

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