president and his fellow democrats first laid out nearly 16 months ago. look, this bill is far from perfect. it s a compromise. but it s often how progress is made, by compromises. and the fact is that my message to congress is this this is the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation, cut the deficit, reduce health care cost, tackle the climate crisis and promote energy security, all the time reducing the burdens facing working class and middle-class families. so pass it. pass it for the american people. pass it for america. i want to bring in nbc capitol hill correspondent ali viatali, jason furman served as chair of the economic advisers and is professor of economic policy at harvard. i don t know how much of this you were able to listen to, jason, but if you had to sort of break it down for folks to the basics of what is, as we said, a very complex economic argument that the white house is trying to make, what is it? it s a very complex economic situation. t
house is proud of. and final point, some of their challenges on inflation have been message related as much as they have been actual inflation. you do see putting the inflation reduction act in the name of this bill, an effort clearly to get ahead of what is their biggest political problem heading into the mid terms. boy, ali, as usual ashley parker is right about that but i want to hit on two of the points she said. one is that politics is a game of expectations. the other thing the democrats have been criticized for is that your all over the place on messaging or at worst they don t have any message at all. just listening to what we re hearing from the president, from janet yellen, from members of congress, they suddenly are all on the same page and, boy, nobody expected this bill, right? yeah, it was a surprise to see this deal come together the way it was announced last night. senators were both surprised by the timing of it but then also the details. they didn t know what woul
president and his fellow democrats first laid out nearly 16 months ago. look, this bill is far from perfect. it s a compromise. but it s often how progress is made, by compromises. and the fact is that my message to congress is this this is the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation, cut the deficit, reduce health care cost, tackle the climate crisis and promote energy security, all the time reducing the burdens facing working class and middle-class families. so pass it. pass it for the american people. pass it for america. i want to bring in nbc capitol hill correspondent ali viatali, jason furman served as chair of the economic advisers