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watching it now. thanks for putting a spotlight on that. tonight economic anxiety is sweeping the country everything from supply chains, worker strikes and income equality. a bill on the build back better deal could be timely, but are democrats any closer to reaching a deal? i m going to ask congresswoman debbie wassermann schultz about that and more. anyone receives a subpoena to testify, show up or go to jail. some of their new laws are about to be put to the test. we re going to tell you about that. i m eamon mohyeldin. let s get started. all right, so driven by worker dissatisfaction in some key economic indicators a sense of economic anxiety is taking hold in this country and perhaps
demanding workers stand up for themselves, demanding better from their employers and making sure these people and their demands are actually met? eamon, strike-tober is the manifestation of millions of workers just saying, you know what, i m mad as hell and i m not going to take it anymore. and they got sick of being put in a situation they were being paid dirt wages that they are struggling with difficult working conditions, whether it s unsafe labor practices or benefits that should be a lot more robust than they are. and so they are taking advantage as they should of using labor and their industry as leverage so that they can make sure that they get better working conditions. and frankly, there are a lot of people who are leaving the industries like the retail businesses, the restaurants because for far too long they haven t been paid or treated like their worth. and so those industries are
the entire climate change of president biden and the democratic party and impact a state like yours which suffers severely from what we see as a result of climate change with stronger hurricanes and even, you know, out west more wildfires that are attributed to that? eamon, what i know about my state is we re living climate change impacts right now. it s not a someday thing. it s a right now thing. when we have king tides that floods neighborhoods in my district, we absolutely need to make sure we make those investments. and in addition to that we absolutely need to make sure we pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. we have a tourism driven economy in florida and making sure our roads and bridges are repaired and we can get people efficiently around our state means more money generated for our economy. but the reality is that we have tight margins in both the house and senate. and so we have to make sure that we work towards what we are going to be able to agree to include in thes
the news that the clean energy performance program which is a key climate measure in the president s spending bill is likely to be dropped from opposition from one senator, joe manchin. if this program does end up getting zraped from the build back better program, will the bill be able to garner enough votes from progressives like a senator bernie sanders? or is this potentially a poison pill for the bill? eamon, first of all, thank you so much for having me and covering this important discussion we ve been having. i think what s important to make clear is that the ongoing negotiations that we re having over trying to make sure that we can bring quality, affordable child care to millions of americans so they don t have to choose between going to work and taking care of their kids, expanding medicaid so that we can cover millions more people that republicans in 13 states have refused to cover, making sure we invest in our nation s infrastructure. that s all happening only because demo