Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Monday, November 15th. I'm Nyla Budu. Here's

what you need to know today. Conclusions after the global climate summit. Plus, IBM's

quantum computing ambitions. But first, today's one big thing. Progressives worry about getting

their spending agenda past.

House Democrats continue to push for a vote of that nearly two trillion dollar buildback

better spending bill. After months of wrangling, no date has been set. And passage of President

Biden's massive agenda remains in question. So one question we're asking this morning is

all the momentum lost. Axios's Hans Nichols covers the Biden White House and is here now with

how progressives are reacting to all of this. Hey, Hans. Good morning. So infrastructure has

passed and it's scheduled to be signed today. But what about President Biden's billback

better plan? Well, how good are you at reading congressional budget office tables?

Because that could be what this comes down to, right? Because for this to pass for the big

1.75 trillion social spending and climate plan to pass, you actually need to have the centrist

on board in the house. And they have said they want fiscal information from the congressional

budget office. And until that happens, they still reserve the right to sink this whole thing.

And that's always been the progressives biggest fear. And so how are progressives trying to sell

this in the absence of that? They're pretending that a promise is a promise. And they're saying,

see, you signed this document. There's a promise. You said you're going to do it. Now you have to do

it. We passed your infrastructure bill. The president's going to sign it. You're going to get $1.2

trillion in new roads, bridges, broadband. So you have to uphold your end of the bargain and vote

for this big social spending plan. The problem is the house doesn't want to take a vote or

house centrist, I should say, don't want to take a vote that the Senate might not agree to.

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