Lives or were injured. He said by and large the vast majority of the Men And Women are decent honorable people. What did he mean by that . That is exactly what he meant. How can he take steps to unify the country while the Impeachment Trial is going on . Well he can focus his efforts, which is exactly what he is doing, on delivering necessary relief to the American Public and using his forum to talk about how he is going to reopen schools. How he is going to get shots in the arms of americans. How he will ensure that the one in seven American Families who are. What is his message to republicans that say that the trial is undercuts any efforts. He invites republicans to help bring relief to the American Public. Talk about his agenda, President Biden has been signing executive orders, speaking to the american people, focusing on the senate next week. How concerned is he that the senate trial will undercut his momentum . I think he has been clear that there is an urgency to delivering rel
the country s 400 wealthiest families have been able to slash their income tax bills to an average rate of 8.2% due to loopholes in the tax code. that rate is 5% below what the average american, meaning y all, pay. we re not just talking about personal income taxes. corporations are also a big problem. this year alone, 55 corporations paid zip, zero in federal income tax, including fedex, nike, and american electric power. amazon wasn t on this year s list, it still avoided $2.3 billion in annual income taxes last year according to the institute of taxation and economic policy. these people have enough cash to literally launch themselves into space for a quick vacay, but nope, america cannot afford to do any spending on its regular, ordinary people. that disparity is what made this moment at the ultra rich confab
price tag is too high. but just for a second, let s put that in perspective. the build back better bill would set aside $3.5 trillion over ten years. do you know how much you pay for our defense budget over the same amount of time? more than $7 trillion. so let s get real. this shouldn t be about how much it costs because we know republicans in particular do not really care about running up debts. because if that was the case, their mango mussolini would have been put on a tighter leash. this fight isn t even about so-called moderates versus progressives. it s about what values we decide to implement through the power that we give the people we elect. which the speaker nancy pelosi made abundantly clear today. i just told members of my leadership that the reconciliation bill was a culmination of my service in congress, because it was about the children, the children, the children, the children. their health, about health,
closely with the white house. we ve worked very closely with the speaker. because, again, this isn t some crazy idea. this is the president s agenda that we insist on delivering. let s talk about the elephants in the room, and maybe elephants. it s weird that there are democrats here. let s play a conversation that or a confrontation that a bloomberg reporter had with joe manchin yesterday. the company you founded, provides coal that would be impacted by one of the proposals in the plan. how is that not a conflict of interest? what? your company provides coal. i ve been in a blind trust for 20 years. you re still getting dividends from it. are. do i have a problem? your son owns it, right? is that not a conflict of interest? i m very proud of my son. you d do best to change the subject. okay that was a little bit
if you re the mayor and the governor, you really m miscalculated. mayor deblasio thought he had enough hold over progressives, governor cuomo, he didn t. so the takes pairs will not have these jobs or this income. there were questions about gentrification, questions about why amazon wasn t putting more money with the mta and help with the subway but that s all part of a negotiation that will not happen now. correct. i ll say having looked in brooklyn at the time that the barclay center was getting build, there was similar gentrification, there s complexities, a lot of people like the housing values going up, others don t like the disruption. you have a fight and in many cases, the arena is now a part