the progressives. were you surprised biden has the chance for this ambitious social agenda, infrastructure, climate change initiatives, pre-k, higher taxes for the rich. yet it s not republicans. but it s democrats standing in the way. i mean, you know, the white house gets irritated by this conversation. but there are going to be consequences if they can t get this done. well, never underestimate the democratic party s ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. and the thing about this spending bill, the one thing that really jumped out to me, if it does go through, we will reduce child poverty by 62%. you would like to think when americans are presented with an opportunity to reduce child poverty by two-thirds, you kind of wouldn t even question what s involved and maybe not even question the cost. i would like to think we will all join hands here and decide our children and reinvesting in people who haven t had an in
more on this. first, you know, we are talking about government shutdown. debt ceiling. infrastructure. the president s entire spending program. how much is riding for the biden administration on all this? i mean, i think how his term in office this one term in office if he is not re-elected or even if he is you will look at this biden term by what happens here, john. i mean, it s nothing shorter than that. we don t usually see a president s entire economic agenda all in one moment in time on capitol hill. but with these two bills that the democrats you describe sort of infighting among themselves with this bipartisan infrastructure package and with the what the white house calls the build back better agenda. you are talking about everything from prekindergarten and and free community college, healthcare expansion, home healthcare aides, you are talking about climate change initiatives. i mean, this is think about all those promises joe biden
healthcare aides, you are talking about climate change initiatives. i mean, this is think about all those promises joe biden made on the campaign trail. this is it coming to fruition in a moment like we don t usually see. yeah. what s riding on this? everything. for for the biden white house and his presidency, at this point. so, there are two battles going on right now. one, democrats versus republican on the shutdown of the debt limit. we will get to that in a second. but democrat v. democrat on the issue of the $3.5 trillion spending plan and infrastructure. and today, progressive pramila jayapal and others made clear that they re not budging. joe manchin on the other side has made clear he s not budging. how does this get resolved? it s an excellent question. nobody has the answer to that, yet. though, every democratic leader today, from nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, president biden, as you mentioned, pramila jayapal, josh gottheimer, everyone is sort of putting on the face
next week senate democrats will accelerate efforts to pass president biden s agenda on infrastructure and climate change. it s an ambitious time line, seen as the text of the bipartisan infrastructure framework hasn t even been finalized yet. but chuck schumer wants to bring it to a procedural vote on wednesday. there are two pieces of legislation at play here. the $579 billion bipartisan framework, focusing on physical or hard infrastructure but leaves out much of biden s promises on climate change. but it does have bipartisan support. republicans would not back a bill that included the so-called human infrastructure provisions. so this week senate democrats came up with a separate $3.5 trillion bill that covers human infrastructure. like elder questionnaire, childcare and parental leave. and it goes farther on climate change initiatives.
set the so called sausage war against that, it seems like rather small beer, doesn t it? i do against that, it seems like rather small beer, doesn t it? small beer, doesn t it? i do note that the g7 small beer, doesn t it? i do note that the g7 final small beer, doesn t it? i do note that the g7 final statement, - small beer, doesn t it? i do note that the g7 final statement, the | that the g7 final statement, the communique, fell short on a number of climate communique, fell short on a number of climate change initiatives that many of climate change initiatives that many had of climate change initiatives that many had hoped to see in it. one was an agreement on a move to zero emission an agreement on a move to zero emission vehicles, an agreement amongst emission vehicles, an agreement amongst all the leaders there, as well amongst all the leaders there, as weii as amongst all the leaders there, as well as failure to reach an agreement on a timetable for the ending of t