拜登的关键议程被搁置

President Biden will not be signing his domestic agenda into law this Christmas.

拜登总统今年圣诞节不会签署他的国内议程使之成为法律。

No. Democrats had been hoping to pass a budget plan before they took off for the holidays - that will not happen - while 50 Democrats are needed to get the bill through the Senate and one is still negotiating.

不会。 民主党人一直希望在放假前通过一项预算计划——这是不可能的——而参议院需要50名民主党人通过该法案，其中一人仍在谈判中。

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has been pushing to keep the costs down.

西维吉尼亚州参议员乔·曼钦一直在推动降低成本。

OK. So, wow, we're talking about Joe Manchin resisting this bill.

好。我们说的是乔·曼钦抵制这项法案。

It's almost like - I don't know - we've done this story a hundred times before.

这就像是——我不知道——这个故事我们已经讲过上百次了。

But how bad is this latest setback for Democrats?

但是民主党最近的挫折有多严重呢?

I mean, the bill is not dead, but it's definitely a big setback for Democrats and the president.

我的意思是，法案并没有被否决，但它绝对是民主党和总统的一个重大挫折。

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been talking for weeks about - saying that there would be a vote by Christmas, but he needs all 50 Democrats to pass this, and he's just not there yet.

参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默数周以来一直在谈论，称将在圣诞节前进行投票，但他需要50名民主党人都通过该法案，但他还没有做到这一点。

In a statement last night, President Biden said he talked to both Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about his talks with Manchin, and he said, quote,

在昨晚的一份声明中，拜登总统表示，他与舒默和众议院议长南希·佩洛西就他与曼钦的会谈进行了交谈，他说，

"we will advance this work together over the days and weeks ahead.

“我们将在未来几天和几周内共同推进这项工作。

Leader Schumer and I are determined to see this bill successfully on the floor as early as possible."

领导人舒默和我都决心让这项法案尽早获得通过。”

But the word weeks in that statement shows you that these issues between Biden and Manchin are still pretty significant, and it's going to take some time.

但声明中的“数周”一词表明，拜登和曼钦之间的议题仍然相当重要，这将需要一些时间。

I feel that, in a way, the more progressive Democrats and Manchin have had the same conversation over and over again.

我觉得，在某种程度上，更进步的民主党人和曼钦已经反复进行了同样的对话。

Manchin says, you're trying to squeeze too much into this bill, make some choices, and more progressive lawmakers say, how about if we squeeze too much into this bill or squeeze everything into this bill?

曼钦表示，你想把太多的东西塞进这个法案，做出一些选择，而更进步的立法者表示，如果我们把过多的东西塞进这个法案或者把所有东西都塞进这个法案怎么样呢?

It's not too much from their perspective.

从他们的角度来看，这并不过分。

But they just seem to be repeating the same points about the cost and scope of the bill.

但他们似乎只是在重复有关该法案的成本和范围的相同观点。

They have, and they've just been sort of at crossways for months.

是的，他们只是在十字路口徘徊了好几个月。

I mean, Manchin has also cited inflation concerns as a big factor in terms of sort of putting the brakes on this effort.

我的意思是，曼钦还将通胀担忧作为阻碍这一努力的一个重要因素。

You know, the president had said the package will help bring down costs.

你知道，总统说这一套计划将有助于降低成本。

On policy, Manchin's mainly focused on the child tax credit.

在政策上，曼钦主要关注儿童税收抵免。

He says he's concerned about how much that would cost and what it would mean if it gets extended for more than the one year that's in this current bill.

他表示，他担心这将花费多少钱，以及如果延长超过当前法案中的一年，将意味着什么。

He also has been saying for some time he has worries about energy and climate change provisions.

他还说他对能源和气候变化条款感到担忧已经有一段时间了。

So these are big items that are going to have to be reworked.

所以这些都是需要修改的大项目。

Regardless of what Senator Manchin wants, it appears that Democrats are not going to be getting immigration into this bill.

不管曼钦参议员想要什么，民主党人似乎不会把移民问题纳入这项法案。

That's right. It's been a rough week for Senate Democrats.

对的。对参议院民主党人来说，这是艰难的一周。

The Senate parliamentarian ruled yesterday that they can't include a provision in this package that would give work permits to undocumented immigrants who've been in the United States since 2011.

参议院议员昨天裁定，他们不能在这套计划中包括向自2011年以来一直在美国的非法移民提供工作许可的条款。

That would have meant they would not be deported.

这就意味着他们不会被驱逐出境。

Top Senate Democrats released a statement last night saying they disagreed with the decision, and they're still going to try other ways to get a path to citizenship.

参议院民主党高层昨晚发表声明称，他们不同意这一决定，他们仍将尝试其他途径(让非法移民)获得公民身份。

But this is the third time they've been rejected from trying to get broad immigration policies in this package.

但这是他们第三次试图将广泛的移民政策纳入这套计划中而遭到拒绝。

I feel obliged to bring up something else here.

我觉得有必要在这里提点别的。

Democrats are now turning back to the question of voting rights.

民主党人现在又回到了投票权的问题上。

And unlike the budget bill, voting rights is the kind of legislation where they need to get past a filibuster, meaning they need 10 Republicans to do anything.

与预算法案不同的是，投票权是那种他们需要通过冗长发言阻挠议事的立法，这意味着他们需要10名共和党人才能做任何事情。

So what's happening there?

这里发生了什么?

They're definitely trying again.

他们肯定又在尝试了。

They're sort of pivoting to this topic as they, you know, had some shaky progress on the spending bill.

他们把焦点转向了这个话题，因为他们在开支法案上取得了一些不稳定的进展。

Advocates met with President Biden and Vice President Harris yesterday, and they say they want to move something soon.

支持者昨天会见了拜登总统和哈里斯副总统，他们表示希望尽快采取行动。

They say that there's a real urgency about acting as states are making changes to voting laws across the country.

他们表示，随着各州在全国范围内修改选举法，采取行动是一件非常紧迫的事情。

But as you said, Republicans have blocked it, so they're talking about potentially a carve out to get around that Senate filibuster.

但就像你说的，共和党人阻止了它，所以他们在讨论可能会有一个办法来绕过参议院的阻挠。