small businesses make up 60% of all the revenue coming from business out there. i want to bring in linda harris. she s from elk ridge, maryland. she s a software product manager, democrat. lind avenue, what s your question? hey, president biden. hey. my middle-class family of four lives on a pretty tight budget. my well husband and i work full-time at well-paying jobs but we still struggle some months to make the ends meet with rising gas prices and utility prices and grocery prices. we re feeling our discretionary income get squeezed and reduced. what plans does the administration have to help ease this kind of current crunch we re feeling? well, there s a number of things that have already been done. and it s hard and people don t think about it. the american rescue plan has provided for an awful lot. the $1.9 billion we passed right after i got elected. so what you got is you got that $1,400 check in the mail. you got a lot of things that helped ameliorate some of the co
problems with not enough truck drivers right now. that s why what we re doing now do you have a timetable for that? well, of a timetable first of all, i want to get the ports up and running and get the railroads and the rail heads and the trucks in port ready to move because i ve gotten walmart and others to say we re going to move stuff off of the port into our warehouses. but are you actually talking about having national guardsmen and women driving trucks? the answer is yes, if we can t move increase the number of truckers, which we re in the process of doing. if we did it this moment. but the whole point is we ve got to get the small business as well because the big guys are in trouble and a lot of the product that your mother makes, the product the things she does in her interior design building, the material, she buys from the larger outfits. i assume. i don t know that. but my whole point is small businesses need the help badly. small businesses make up 60% of
apparently he gave there he is right there. he runs a business out there and last august, he gave a million dollars to the mitt romney super pac called restore our future. then three weeks ago, barack obama campaign web site called keeping g.o.p. honest took the extraordinary step of naming some public citizens who had donated money to the opposition and assailed them for that. they were accused of being wealthy individuals with less than reputable records and then a week later, for this guy, apparently some it sounds like a private investigator, went to his county courthouse looking for records about his divorce. so it looks like the campaign is digging up dirt on people who are giving money to the other side. so let s listen to him. he spoke with greta on friday night. when this list came out and there were only eight people on it. i was one of them. so when i first learned that i was on his enemies list, that really worried me at first, i ll tell you.
this was designed to give americans more of their hard-earned money. we ve had saying two months is unworkable. even media, the times said this two-month extension is unworkable for businesses. businesses pay their payroll taxes on a quarterly basis. so what we re voting on, doesn t even work for the american, for the american business out there. it is hard for them to calculate it. that s why if we re going to do it, we need to do it for one year. gregg: the vote is in 40 minutes. clearly you re not going to be there to object. so we ll wait and see if anybody else will. thanks very much, congressman jeff landry, of louisiana. julie: we ll be hearing from the democrats next. the congressman chris van hollen of maryland, who has been very vocal in this fight will join us live to talk about today s house meeting and what we can expect. we ll stay tuned to that. gregg: john edwards asking a judge to delay his trial on campaign corruption charges.
we re going to reduce co-pays for care, 10 to $15 and premiums going up, 30, 40%. people are going to be paying a ton of money out of pocket. neil: and what s the don t get me started. neil: she s putting those guys kind of on a list. she she pulled a tony soprano this week, saying, you know, we are going to remember you. they did that in massachusetts, it didn t work. wh he they reformed health care in massachusetts turned against the insurers on board and nobody wants to underwrite business out there. what you re going to do you re going to alienate the insurers and don t want to play, costs are going through the roof because of the promises we have to headache it to consumers and going to be ripping into this one, revoking the insurers, the administration, all of that. and i m curious, as to whether the administration in its heart of hearts knows the numbers increasingly aren t i don t blame the