hours. what s the latest? democrats are now on pace to pass this bill, probably within the hour. this after a marathon voting session that started at 11:30 p.m. eastern time last night, has gone all through the night into the afternoon, and after some last-minute drama, within their own caucus, democrats have resolved those issues, and now are pushing ahead to final passage. that drama caused by concerns initially raised by kyrsten sinema of arizona. the 15% corporate minimum tax. she was concerned it could impact some smaller companies. it s supposed to hit companies that have a billion dollars or more in income. but she had concerns about companies that were subsidiaries of those that were owned by private equity firms. she wanted to exempt those subsidiaries. she agreed to a republican amendment that targeted this, that narrowed this corporate minimum tax, exempted those subsidiaries. but democrats were revolting over this because of the way that republican amendment wou
And glove with the president on selling the healthcare plan, the president sends out four tweets about Predecessor Wiretapping him. Did that help or hurt . That was not part of the campaign trail. How far off course did that take you . I think it was theres really often into new territory. There is part of what the Intelligence Kmo Committee is investigating. Late today, the Justice Department told them it immediate more time to review the request. The Spokesperson Sean Spicer said the president made the stupid charge. Spicer dodged some of the
wiretapped him. Now they are trying to weasel out of it. I think the grown up here is mccain who saying Put Up Or Shut up. They have gotten away with the fantasy that there were 3 million fraudulent votes casts. This president does not get called into account for putting out false statements. Even though it involves something of historic magnitude an it doesnt seem to stick
with donald trump when he fly out lies. I think there are people who bel
always wants to see how question work across the aisle. but this bill was just straight party line here in the senate. i expect it will be as well in the house. and i think speaker pelosi and the house democratic caucus will quickly pass it. they ll come back into session soon, pass it and send it to the president s desk. so this is being called the inflation reduction act. so how specifically will this impact inflation right now? it does several important things. it pays down the deficit by $300 billion. it reduces the energy costs that the average family pays in very specific and concrete ways. it helps with prescription drug costs and with health care costs for millions and millions of people. there is more than 60 million americans who are medicare beneficiaries for whom prescription drug costs are a big part of their monthly bills. there are 14 millions on the affordable care act exchanges
in dollars, like, 4 millions 4 millions. but there are fears the government won t be able to raise the money it needs, and it comes as the public finances are in drastic need of improvement with hundreds of millions of debt due to pay next year.
in dollars, like, 4 millions 4 millions. but there are fears the government won t be able to raise the money it needs, and it comes as the public finances are in drastic need of improvement with hundreds of millions of debt due to pay next year.