in south carolina, and billions in new climate spending. bret: president biden will hit the road to promote the legislation but yet to see if vulnerable democrats appear alongside him. his poll numbers are around 40%. gillian: peter doocy is with us to kick things off from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. what part of this bill are officials hoping to highlight this afternoon? peter: it s not inflation reduction so far, gillian, even though it is called the inflation reduction act. instead the president is teasing this bill signing by highlighting the green impact. he tweeted the inflation reduction act will position america to meet my climate goals, saving families hundreds a year in energy costs and take advantage of clean energy and electric vehicle tax credits, more than twice the savings. the package was more than twice this size but even the slimmed-down version, the democrats in congress negotiated so it could pass, has republican colleagues nervous about what comes nex
the bill includes $369 billion to combat climate change, largest in u.s. history. it gives medicare the power to negotiate some drug prices. it caps medicare out-of-pocket expenses at $2,000 and extended affordable care act subsidies for three years. white house reporter kevin livtak looks at what it means. jess, i want to start with you because we have news breaking in the last five to ten minutes, which i think is a good harbinger for your next few days at the capitol, where do things stand for the key elements for this to move forward? reporter: phil, democrats getting good news from the senate parliamentarian. to give you the big picture, they are using as you both noted this complex budget process that requires the support of all 50 democrats. doesn t need any republican support, but in order to do that the parliamentarian has to rule it passes and musters up to all of these rules surrounding it. we just found out really in the last ten minutes that the parliamenta
gillian: and doubling of their workforce. bret: concern about government overreach and expanding government is real as this goes into effect, administration obviously touting the climate change aspects of this, that the president has been fighting about for a long time. grover norquist a little bit later this hour talking about that here on fox. meantime, voters in wyoming and alaska are heading to the polls today. key primary races in both states will be another test for former president trump s influence, and the most closely watched contests may be congresswoman liz cheney s bid for re-election against trump backed candidate. rich is in casper, wyoming taking a look at the race. what are the candidates up to today? rich: we have no idea, neither campaign will share what the candidates are doing, nor what they have been doing over the past several days we have been here. we are at a polling place we expect congresswoman liz cheney may come vote but have not seen her yet.
this, getting it to the house and eventually getting it to president biden s desk? good morning, phil. i actually don t unless it is something parliamentary in nature, unless some aspect that allows, you know, the tax revenue to come together in the way it has been promised were to be impacted. that would certainly impact both joe manchin s thinking and kyrsten sinema s. other than that, there don t seem to be any road blocks. there will be this vote-a-rama. there will be a lot of noise over the weekend, most of the house democrats that could be sticking points over local revenues and taxation are falling in line. there may be one or two who don t. really, this is right now, unless something happens with the parliamentarian s judgment, on a path to go through, and its implications really, i think of them in two buckets. politically, the climate change aspects may appeal politically to democrats who have been, you know, wanting this and it will
university of virginia. let me go to you, congressman. you were a lieutenant governor. sure. you know about management, forestry management. it seems the president even in the midst of this and in the midst of the democratic governor brown, jerry brown and incoming governor gavin newsom, a democrat taking the high road, he still blaming it, basically, on the forestry mismanagement as his terms and playing down the climate change aspects. how do you react to that as one that help run the state of california that went through wildfires before, maybe not as deadly as this one, but have gone through crisis and emergencies like this before that was climate related? i certainly been through many of these dating back to the oakland hills fire when i was the insurance commissioner in california. that was 29 dead in that fire and that was in the oakland hills.