seniors. what we are going to come out of this with, if we get all of these things, which are the progressive caucus priorities is really transformative. so that s what i was saying is i didn t want to settle for nothing, for, you know, the infrastructure bill and nothing on this build back better act. the priorities you ve laid out, strength, paid leave, home care, making bold investments in affordable housing, affordable drug price, roadmap to citizenship, what seems like it s getting thrown to the side, the clean energy performance program, which is pretty important in dealing with climate change. joe manchin doesn t want that. kirsten sinema doesn t want medicaid to be able to negotiate prescription drug prices. free community college is now out. are the compromises going to wind up being so much and so many that we wind up doing not
medicaid because they will just block grant it and there are a whole bunch of states where if the governor doesn t want medicaid, congress isn t financing medicaid, suddenly people just don t have health care. right away, i guarantee you they will start cutting back on funding for things like pell grants and support for historic historically black colleges and universities. right away they will roll back the affordable care act. right away, i guarantee you, they ll dig up michelle s garden. no, you think i m joking? so the president is hoping to reach black voters in some key states. look at north carolina, the black early vote is five points behind where it was at this point in 2012. in georgia, it s five points behind where it was in 2012. florida, we can compare it to 2008 numbers, and the black early turnout is three points behind. this is a real concern and something the president is hoping to change in these final days.