Build Back Better Faces Hurdles

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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President Biden wraps up the first stop of his infrastructure bill road tour in New Hampshire selling his legislative accomplishment. Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Rep. Pramila Jayapal joins to discuss how the infrastructure law will impact public transit and how Biden’s Build Back Better act will affect childcare, drug costs, and more. With the independent Congressional Budget Office yet to provide an official scoring of the bill, some moderate votes are still uncertain. 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	He's got a bridge to sell ya, actually many of them.
0:05.9	The lead starts right now, from rickety bridges to spotty wifi president Biden hitting
0:11.7	the road with a trillion dollar fix and hoping for the next big thing.
0:17.6	The big question today for Trump's former chief of staff doesn't want to be like Steve
0:21.8	Bannon.
0:22.8	Why his loyalty to the defeated former president also could land him in court.
0:28.6	Plus, tis the season for a shortage of stuff.
0:32.0	What if everything you need this holiday season is the next tickle me Elmo?
0:42.0	Welcome to the lead.
0:43.0	I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper and we begin today in the politics lead.
0:47.6	Moment to go.
0:48.6	President Biden wrapped up the first stop of his infrastructure bill road tour, stopping
0:52.9	at one of New Hampshire's crumbling bridges, which has been on the red list for poor
0:56.9	conditions for years.
0:59.2	Now the president says help is on the way.
1:02.5	What's still in limbo?
1:03.7	The other more expensive part of Biden's big legislative agenda, that nearly two trillion
1:08.5	dollar social safety net bill, the Build Back Better Act.
1:12.2	We'll talk to the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Congresswoman Permilla
1:16.6	Giappall in just a minute.
1:18.5	But first CNN's Caitlin Collins has new reporting about when that bill might come to a floor
1:23.5	vote in the house.
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