expire so these programs include an unemployment insurance extension federal student loan payment markland and in the action protections so it's actually very critical that these lifelines do not expire and hit americans who are already struggling to cover these costs so if these unemployment programs expire at the end of the year about $12000000.00 americans could lose their benefits and that on top of all of this the federal government will likely need to approve more funds to streamline the distribution of additional cobra 19 vaccines in the coming months so i would say that it is optimistic that some work is getting done here but let's not get ahead of ourselves the bipartisan compromise that was originally put forward during the fall was rejected by palosi own chris who it's been rejected several times for several months now this is far less than democrats had hoped for that number of $108000000000.00 is there any possibility that you think this will pass. oh it's tough i mean. yeah it's really tough yes and it's going to cross or not i think something's going to happen and some court