power grid. there are rebates for consumers going more green. money for electrifying the fleet of federal vehicles and for conservation and agriculture and forestry aimed at, among other things, reducing the threat of wildfires. critics, of course, are calling it an inferno of spending. that contains significant tax increases on small businesses, on individuals. it s a policy expansion using just partisan exercise of democratic votes only. reporter: still, there is more. the bill would expand medicare and reduce how much obamacare users must pay. it would bolster affordable housing and put $190 billion into home and community services for the nation s growing senior population, the disabled and those who work with them. indeed this is so much spending over the next ten years it s possible that no one can actually tell you everything this bill contains. of course, critics think that s
50% electric vehicles. they want to know we re going to invest in the infrastructure so people will buy those evs. there are all these issues that people care about and need. we ll have a lot of discussion but they want to see results. they want broadband. they can t i mean, the kids, they want their kids back in school, but broadband is so unequal. it s not here in the urban areas, it s out in the rural areas. i ve been trying to do virtual hearings in the car with markups and votes, and it s a nightmare. people want results. congresswoman, you sit on the house energy committee which released details of its portion of the bill this week, which includes $190 billion for an expansion of medicaid to help the elderly and disabled stay in their homes. it s far less than the $400 billion that the president wanted and still below the $250
$1.2 trillion agreement for infrastructure including some $190 billion for roads, bridges and other major projects. a lot of money to fix the power grid and some money for public transit and 65 billion to expand broadband. white house aides now want the plan to be put into motion, they would like to see a proposal written into legislation and get to the president s desk by september. but biden seems to surprise lawmakers when he said he s going to keep pushing for a much larger bill, something like $6 trillion to expand child care, education, medicaid, the white house, though, insists this was always its plan. he wants the things to move in tandem, he s going push the white house bipartisan forward and move with congress to address priorities through the reconciliation process. i think what he said yesterday is what he said from the outset which is that the two things need to move together. mark: the white house is saying
when they divorced a couple years ago, that meant she was worth about 36 billion dollars. but now owning 4% of amazon s top means that she s worth not 36 billion dollars but more like 60 billion dollars. and that s even with giving away eight billion dollars in a year, right? giving way eight billion dollars as fast as she can. amazon is worth so much as a company. giving away billions of dollars a year doesn t affect the fact that her network still just keeps going up and it s not like she is jeff bezos. jeff bezos is himself is something worth 190 billion dollars. it says he has so much money now the only thing he can think of to do with it all is to launch himself into space. i know you think i m kidding or being hyperbolic but he said a few years ago that the only way i can see to deploy this much financial resources by converting my amazon winnings and space travel that is
as fast as she can. amazon is worth so much as a company, giving away billions of dollars a year doesn t effect the fact her net worth keeps going up. she s not jeff bezos. here s worth $190 billion. he has so much money now the only thing he can think of to do with it all is to launch himself into space. i know yo think i m kidding. he said quote the only way i can deploy this much financial resource is by converting my amazon winnings into space travel. that s it. so now he s doing it. funding a space tourism company and heading to space next month himself. wealth that amazon that company generated is almost impossible to wrap your head around. especially the last year. because of the pandemic amazon which was already unimaginably