Biden scores big win as Senate approved $3.5T budget plan; Public health experts urge local leaders to mandate vaccines; Official: Taliban could be cut off and take Kabul within weeks; Pace of price surge slows in July as economy shifts

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Biden critics balk at massive $3.5T budget blueprint; Manchin raises “serious concerns” about $3.5 trillion budget; White House faces delicate balancing act to advance Biden’s priorities; L breaks hospitalization record, gets hundreds of ventilators; Judge grants temporary restraining order again Texas governor’s ban on mask mandates; Oregon institutes indoor mask mandate after record new cases; San Antonio judge approves temporary stop to gov’s ban on masks in schools; Austin, Dallas, San Antonio among cities requiring masks in schools despite Gov. Abbott’s mask ban; Pace of price surge slows in July as economy shifts To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Senator Joe Manchin added again, the lead starts right now. President Biden this afternoon
0:08.8	pushing his economic plans with a price tag in the trillions but will his fellow Democrats
0:14.7	get in the way. Then a massive new vaccine mandate for teachers and staff in California
0:21.5	and the Biden administration wants others to follow their lead. Plus could cobble fall
0:27.6	a new intelligence assessment warning Afghanistan's capital could be isolated by the Taliban
0:32.6	within just 30 days. We're live on the ground there.
0:41.1	Welcome to lead on Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapp or and we began with our politics lead.
0:45.8	A giant step for President Biden as he cheers on $3.5 trillion worth of promises made
0:52.5	and promises he hopes to keep hours after passing the bipartisan infrastructure deal.
0:58.1	The Senate voted very early this morning to move forward on the president's $3.5 trillion
1:03.2	budget blueprint. Now this plan includes a long list of pricey Biden priorities such as
1:08.4	investments to fight against climate change, universal pre-K creating more affordable housing
1:13.5	and changes to the tax code just to name a few. The late night vote was only the first
1:18.6	up in a lengthy process which is CNN's film Maddenly Reports already is turning into
1:23.5	a price tag fight within the president's own party.
1:27.4	In the past 24 hours we've seen the Senate advance two key pieces of my economic agenda.
1:33.7	President Biden taking a victory lap for the second time just hours after this moment.
1:40.2	That applause from Senate Democrats just minutes before 4 a.m. this morning marking
1:44.6	another win for the White House. This was one of the most significant legislative days we've
1:50.4	had in a long time here in the United States Senate. All 50 Senate Democrats sticking together
1:55.7	through a 15-hour process of dozens of votes adopting the blueprint for Biden's $3.5 trillion
2:02.4	social safety net expansion and on top of a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure two critical
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