agree with that at all. not at all. congressman mike cheryl is a democrat of new jersey. she s voting in favor of the debt ceiling bill and she joins me now. congresswoman, i guess i will ask you the question that steve doocy asked andy biggs, republican colleague. did republicans or democrats get more out of this deal, in your estimation? well, this was mccarthy s deal. we showed the american public what our vision of the future looked like. things like investing in reassuring american manufacturing, investing in our crumbling infrastructure, a real vision for the future economy and competition with china, which we ve already seen some of those investments paying off with true, you know, private investment, $88 million in ev manufacturing, 210 billion dollars in chips manufacturing. that was our vision of the future that we put in place in the last congress. and we saw what republicans wanted. we saw cuts to a head start programs, cuts to veterans
infrastructure bill that was supposed to do things like fix our railroads and fix our crumbling infrastructure. but instead they spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the green new deal agenda for much of like going to places like china to pursue the crazy religion rather than focusing on the important things not that that money would have been in time to fix the problem with these rails. it does show the general lack of concern about infrastructure. alicia optics me a lot in politics between the age of social media it s all fast you scroll you see a pic she read that type of thing. i use a pop surprised pete buttigieg post to be the smart one did not grasp the optics of not going to this community want to talk about nausea, headaches, respiratory issues on things that came from chemicals that cause cancer.
we re going to have lower costs for medicine, which they re getting from this administration. they re voting on whether or not we have voting rights, which they re getting from this administration. will whether or not we fix our crumbling infrastructure, which we are getting. whether or not we do the things that are necessary to get people back to work. that s what we re getting. unemployment rate at historic lows because people are going back to work. i don t know anybody who would rather stay home from work so long as they can pay 10 cents a gallon less for gasoline. that s not a choice that we re going to offer the american people. congressman, you played a huge role in helping president joe biden get to the white house. what do you see as his biggest successes? and do you think that he s had any failures? well, we all sometimes do things that may not have the expectations that we would like, but this president has restored
municipality can simply print money to fix its crumbling infrastructure. only congress can do that. republicans refusal to do so is part of one of the oldest tricks in the gop playbook. you may remember this nearly 50-year-old headline, ford to city, drop dead. every republican president refused to help new york city when it was on the verge of collapse. for decades, republicans representing mostly white, rural constituencies fought hard to block funding for diverse urban areas, especially cities that are mostly black. when those cash starved communities inevitably bring down the same republicans use the crisis they created as evidence for why urban governments are to in compliment to be trusted with federal funds. in this ultra maga era, some
turns out big problems are a lot safer to talk about in speeches because you can t actually do anything about them because there s no expectations. roads, bridges, buildings are very different. things that are expensive or hard to do. buildings roads and bridges are falling apart. according to the american society of civil engineers that keeps tracks of these things, there s more than 617,000 bridges in this country read as of tonight, more than 46,000 of those bridges are considered structurally deficient. that means they are in terrible shape. kind of a big deal for a bridge. as far roads, 43% of all public roadways in this country are in poor or mediocre condition. in other words, we actually are mexico, although a lot richer. what are we going to do about this? what is the $1.2 trillion plan going to do for our crumbling infrastructure. more speed cameras. according to the