Democrats Splinter On Biden’s Economic Agenda

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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With the Democrats continuing to splinter on Biden’s economic agenda after their gubernatorial election defeat in Virginia, sources tell CNN that House Speaker Pelosi is pushing for a vote on the spending bill tonight and the infrastructure bill tomorrow. Representative Katie Porter joins to discuss the current state of play in getting this contentious legislation passed by her party.

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0:00.0	The news continues.
0:02.1	It's got a Chris and Cuomo prime time, Chris.
0:04.3	All right.
0:05.3	Thank you, Anderson.
0:06.3	I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to prime time.
0:08.3	Learn or lose.
0:11.3	That's the proposition for Democrats.
0:13.4	So question.
0:14.8	Why would Speaker Pelosi tell her caucus earlier?
0:17.2	She wanted votes on the build back, better built tonight and infrastructure tomorrow.
0:25.2	Why won't they learn the lesson?
0:27.6	Don't promise what you can't deliver so far tonight no votes scheduled as of this program.
0:36.2	But it may be worse if they do vote on build back better because they know the Senate is
0:42.6	not ready to pass it because of their own party.
0:46.9	The Speaker also chose to put four weeks of paid family and medical leave back in the
0:51.7	$1.75 trillion plan after scrapping it to get Senator Manchin on board.
0:57.9	But he's still locked in the same position he's been articulating for months and says that
1:03.4	paid leave has to be in a different bill, not the reconciliation bill.
1:08.6	So why put it in?
1:11.8	The Democrats are acting like they're playing games with the out party, but this is their
1:17.3	own party.
1:19.8	Why air your incongruence openly to expose Manchin is the problem, right?
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