direct aid provided by democrats exclusively. that is the same type of thing they want to carry into the midterms, showing, hey, we can deliver on this. and not just the reconciliation bill, but also voting rights, reproductive rights, everything at risk right now is critical and democrats have to step up to the plates, because voters entrusted them to be able to step up to the plate. elise, biden democrats want to spend around $4.5 billion to overhaul our child care industry. republicans say that number is way too steep. and you have political reporting, women this summer dropped out of the workforce in staggering numbers. more than 40,000 between july and august. while men returned to work at three times that rate. you have got the treasury, elise, saying that the child care system in america is unworkable. what is the consequence of not making a big investment in child care? alicia, i don t know if there
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so i have been focusing on that issue, and we look forward to getting it passed in the near future. yeah, just to reminding viewers, you are chairman of the budget committee. there is a struggle within your own party to present a united front on the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. senator manchin told dana bash on sunlds there s no way he would vote for anything close to that. maybe he would support a $1.5 trillion package. his vote is obviously very important in terms of passing. is there a solution there? yeah, there is a solution. i think we re negotiating with 50 people. everybody in the caucus has their needs and has their concerns, but this is what i think every member of the democratic caucus understands. that is we live in a country where the people on top are doing phenomenally well while working families are struggling. does anyone deny that our child care system is a dysfunctional mess? no. people are paying 10, 15,
senator bernie sanders, independent of vermont. first senator sanders, let s start off with what is in this bill? it s been a little hard to keep track of everything both the negotiations, the proposals in the white house, from the budget committee. just top line, what are we talking about here? while we re talking about is the understanding that for decades working families have been struggling, the very rich have been getting richer, and you have billionaires and large corporations that pay in a given year nothing in taxes. point number one. this bill will substantially raise taxes on the richest people in this country, and the largest corporations, that s number one. number two. for decades, we have ignored the need of working families. everybody knows that we have a child care system which is dysfunctional. in my state, $15,000 a year, that s about have average nationally. pre-k, the same.
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