back to inflation time and time again, so not surprising for him to want to look at the july inflation numbers to move forward. victor and alisyn, i talked about what could be in a potential deal, what might they be able to do. there s really only two things that our reporting indicates manchin is really open to and that s allowing medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and also extending these aca subsidies for another two years. that means the tax provisions are out, closing some tax loopholes to sure up medicare solvency is out. any tax raises on the wealthy or businesses all out. and to give us perspective, this went from a $3 trillion deal to $1.75 trillion, to now potentially, maybe, getting these last two things done. but, again, we ll just see on that. victor and alisyn. jessica dean, thank you. so why were secret service text messages sent on the day of the capitol insurrection
ashley: is three letters in the alphabet. i think she is really a phantom of the media. ashley: cicely davis, is the squad overrated? the squad is overrated, what marxist socialist policies are overrated chltz what is good about this district and the american people, the majority decided they want common sense and holding anyone account who is anti-american and doesn t stand for policies that uplift families and businesses and doesn t hurt pocketbooks. america is chasing under biden administration inflation policies and ilhan omar, one of the largest spenders in congress proposing we spent another $1.75 trillion to erase college debt,
mocking larry summers when you all were saying in real time, this is going to be inflationary. don t do it. they didn t listen to you. mocked you, ridiculed you, calling you chicken little. you were right. they were wrong. we had 40 years of no inflation, and some economists thought it was impossible to create inflation again. let s bring donald trump back into this. part of why the checks ran out, donald trump ran around georgia the end of thank you, steve. 2020 and said, we have to send $2,000 to every american. if you re joe biden, you come in, you want to be pushed to the right by donald trump? no, you have to stay, you know, in his lane. so that s part of it. but the second thing i d say, marc, not to get too but the deal that manchin didn t do, the $1.75 trillion would have added $350 billion, roughly, to the deficit over the first three years. might have made it up later, but it would have added to the inflation problem we re having right now.
very poorly. they ll have some questions about what the biden administration did. they will accept the fact that, between ukraine and supply chain, there were some unexpected developments. and we talk about joe manchin a couple days ago. one of joe manchin s continuing frustration with progressives, while they were talking about what type of relief packages were going out there, is they kept setting the number so high that he was saying, why would we pay somebody who makes why would you give them relief? instead, saying, let s focus on the truly disadvantaged. focus on the people the mayor is talking about. let s talk about the people in west virginia. look at the people in west virginia, what the mean salary is, and focus the spending. joe negotiated the package down to $1.75 trillion and walked away. yeah. i thought that was really an act of bad faith. if you were just going to be
that, you should have said, i m not going to negotiate. we sent messages he could live with $1.75 trillion and walked away. i understand that. i also understand that package, if, you know, joe wanted to repeal the trump tax cuts, those packages would be paid for. right. wouldn t have an inflationary impact. we don t know the back story to that. i m just talking generally, though, about an argument. we can just talk about progressives in congress. progressives in congress wanted to write checks out to people who didn t need the checks. it s that simple. i guess you could also argue hold on a second. you just told me uh-huh. you just told me if we just give the checks to the truly disadvantaged, we might not have the inflation mess we have right now. i m agree with you. right. let s find a middle ground, my friend. my point, joe, is it appeared as though a middle ground was being forged on the biden plan.