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and let s start with lucas tomlinson at the white house for us. good afternoon. the bus trips are a message to the president, democrats and even vice-president who claim the border is secure. the border is not secure and you need to help us stop this. i don t care what crying, let them cry in their beer all day long, and the people of martha vineyard s what a bunch of elitist hypocrites they are. and buses were dropping off in washington, and massachusetts avenue for the second time, and today, which happens to be constitution day, more migrants are sent as well. the white house is reeling from florida governor ron desantis sending a plane of migrants to martha s vineyard.
to challenge the segregation laws and the riders encounters violence, beatings, and yale time. the first ride was fire bombed by a white mob in alabama. the rides however would go on to transform america. setting the stage for the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965. change is often met with resistance, which is why the next year white segregationists concocted a viciously racist plan, offering black people one-way tickets to the north or to the west with the promise of a better life. these bus trips were dubbed reverse freedom rides. here s betty williams on how her mother was lured onto one of them in 1962. my mother was told she was going to have better everything. she was going to have a job and she was going to be able to support her family and her children was going to be able to get an education, be able to go to school. you know, that alone was not the
water. they have very little that they need with they re on these multiple-hour cross country bus trips. did the administration offer any help or assurances to you? well, i think we had a very candid conversation. we ve agreed that there s got to be better collaboration and communication with cities like chicago, new york and washington, d.c. i ve talked at length with my fellow mayors from both of those cities. we are doing everything we can to make sure we address the needs of the migrants that are coming to our respective cities. of course we expect the federal government to step up and provide us with resources. if there were better conditions, if there was more coordination as you have said you wanted, would you be okay with governor abbott doing this? i mean, if there was more in terms of providing them what they need? well, unilateral political
as you know, we ve been trying for years to get medicare, given the power to do with the va does for veterans, the va negotiates and gets about a 40% reduction in prices for veterans. because they negotiate. so, medicare, huge by are the biggest one in the space hasn t been able to do that. i have, since i was in the u.s. house of representatives, 1998, i used to do these bus trips from detroit over to windsor. ten minutes on a bus, you can drop the cost 40%. so it s outrageous. right now, the most important thing is that the biggest driver, the biggest customer, on prescription drugs, which is medicare, is going to be able to negotiate prices. we re going to cap a lot of pocket costs for seniors at $2,000 a year, which is a big deal. if we can get this cap, $35 a month, cap on insulin for people? wow!
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