we bipartisanly passed the respect for marriage act. don t say we can t get along. years ago, i wrote with great consternation, but we ve reauthorized it again, the violence against women act. the electoral reform act. folks, we did that in a bipartisan way, democrats and republicans did it. i don t know why they don t acknowledge any part of what s making the country again, but in addition, we passed the american rescue plan. the inflation reduction act, and the people sent a clear message. fighting for the sake of fighting gets us nowhere. there s things that we ve got to get things done. that s always been my vision for the country, and i think that s what the american people said in this off year election. yesterday i went to wisconsin, nice and warm like down here. [ laughter ] to talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle-down economy. not allowed to trick down at my dad s table when we re growing up. today
good to be with you, i m katy tur. as you can see, president biden is in tampa, florida. using this week to sell what he was laying out during the state of the union, the economy and jobs and protecting medicare and social security. let s listen in. nice and warm like down here. talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle down economics. trickle down on my dad s table when we were growing up. i came to florida to talk about a critical piece of that plan, giving families and seniors just a little more breathing room, my dad would say, to lower your health care costs. and especially important here in florida, as not surprising to any one of you, you have the highest percentage of seniors of any state in the nation. the highest percentage. folks on fixed incomes, rely on social security and medicare to get by. they deserve a greater sense of security and dignity. that s what my plan offers. to many americans, laying i
pomellato by the people who built and fed this country for generations. hundreds of thousands of them have died from opioids and their still dying more than a hundred thousand drug deaths last year from fat and all. smuggled through china and mexico. if you live there you probably know someone who is died from fat and all probably someone s child. what you may have forgotten in the face of all the sadness is the opioid epidemic was not organic, it didn t just happen one day people and sparsely populated people in kentucky this of me felt sad and took dangerous drugs. no. this particular disaster was greeted by drug companies. that is true they kicked it off. they did by aggressively marketing oxycontin. they sold it to doctors and doctors solely to the patient s on the false claim that it was nonaddictive. it was very addictive. what happened next? what drive through upstate new york you could see the carnage. ultimately purdue pharma fixed lawsuits and criminal charges in th
when i meet with the new republican leadership, they say they re not going to raise taxes on anybody at all, and they re not going to do that. they re just going to cut. what would you cut? start off if you don t stop trying to do away with the legislation i did to hold big pharma accountable, i m going to cut hundreds of billions of dollars of debt. they looked at me like what the hell is he talking about. guess what you, pay that cost. republican senators and congressmen, and there are a lot of good ones, are still threatening to repeal the inflation reduction act which contains this legislation. republican congress have their way, the power we gave medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices goes away. the cap goes away. the $35 a month insulin limitation goes away. and by the way, i was able to
if you want to come up on stage, you can do that, too, if you want to. look, this is pretty basic. it s pretty basic. when i meet with the new republican leadership, they say, they re not going to raise taxes on anybody at all. and they re not going to do that, they re just going to cut. i say, what would you cut? well, start off, if you don t stop trying to do away with the legislation, to whole big pharma accountable, i ll cut by hundreds of billions of dollars a day. and he looked at me, like, what hell he s talking about? guess what? you pay that cost. republicans senators and congressmen, and there are a lot of good ones, are still threatening to repeal the inflation reduction act, which contains this legislation. republicans in congress have their way, the power we just gave medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices goes