talk about adding two new states. these folks are on a mission to grow this government, to replace the private sector everywhere they can and they see this as their last best chance. martha: that is the underlying foundation of this build back better bill. that is what doesn t get discussed a lot. we talk about the dollar figures. it s an effort to expand the entitlement nature and the infrastructure. the way l.b.j. did. martha: absolutely. the way f.d.r. did. they had a mandate for change that the biden administration doesn t have. f.d.r. had a 70% approval rating. l.b.j. had one of the biggest victories in 1964. this was a squeaker for the democrats in congress, in the senate and, of course, there was a lot of controversy about the election itself. the bottom line is that they
you include the infrastructure measure that will bring about big change. i think that was really part of the motivation of last night s town hall meeting to focus on the positives, what they re doing, rather than the top dollar figures, the pay fors and what they re having to cut from it, i m not sure how successful that was. let me drill down on the filibuster and play part of that question and answer, he was also asked, as you point out, by a member of the audience how black people were so important, black voters, to his election. and how they haven t seen vote rights. they haven t seen police reform. and this is what he had to say about the filibuster. if in fact, i get myself into at this moment the debate on the filibuster, i lose at least three votes right now to get what i have to get done on the economic side of the equation, the foreign policy side of the
have time we don t have time to think about that, so we will just kind of play around with imaginary dollar figures. tucker: at what point do you think it becomes really obvious that they mismanaged monetary policy, that they don t care about inflation and inflation really begins to fight people and people wake up to this? the dangerous thing about inflation as it builds on itself. what the expectations we have four inflation then leads to more inflation, so i think there is a real danger if you say we will just kind of let it run a little bit and it won t get too bad, that s exactly when things can really start to get out of control, and i think if we were to see, you know, all of this proposed spending go through, you know, if you look at already the supply chain issues we have, the shortages out there, as you mentioned, it is really important, people think wages are going up, but they are not going up as fast as inflation. in fact, wages are going down. that is what people wil
to think about that, so we will just kind of play around with imaginary dollar figures. tucker: at what point do you think it becomes really obvious that they mismanagedr: monetary policy, that they don t care about inflation and inflation really begins to bite people and people wake up to this? the dangerous thing about inflation as it builds on itself. what the expectations we have four inflation then leads to more inflation, so i think thern is a real danger if you say, we will just kind of let it run a little bit and it won t get too bad, that s exactly when things can really start to get out of control, and i think if we were to see, you know, all of this proposed spending go through, you know, if you look at already the supply chain issues we have, the shortages out there, as you mentioned, it is really important, people think wages are going up, but they are not going up as fast as inflation. in fact, wages are going down. that is what people will notice, and that is just
requires every single democratic vote plus vice president kamala harris. manchin released a statement earlier in the week, and he said this. i can t support $3.5 trillion more in spending when we have already spent $5.4 trillion since last march. at some point, all of us, regardless of party, must ask the simple question, how much is enough? what i have made clear to the president and democratic leaders is that spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs when we can t even pay for the essential social programs like social security and medicare, is the definition of fiscal insanity. sinema held her cards closer to the vest. tweeting that in august, she had shared her detailed concerns and priorities, including dollar figures, with president biden and senate majority leader chuck schumer. here s an indication of her importance. this week, biden and his aides met with sinema four times in one day.