in electric vehicle manufacturing and electric vehicle battery manufacturing. 11,000 new jobs. it s the biggest expansion of that company in the history of that company so here s my question. are we ready all those millions of american-made high-tech batteries are going to go into millions of electric american-made cars and trucks. it is happening. those electric american-made cars and trucks with electric american-made batteries are going to require charging stations all over america. and in red states and in blue states, in urban areas and out in the country and you may or may not care about cars as a thing. that whole electric polaris thing i talked about maddow, why would i need a golf cart thingie that can pull a log through the mud. i get it not everybody is into this
for itself we re going to do it why would we not do it how would we keep our heads up and face our voters, again for the midterm elections next year if with control of the white house, of the senate and the house and an agenda that s wildly popular that the president ran on that is stuff that the country needs, we just couldn t figure it out progressives have decided, no, we re going to get it done, and so that is why plans changed today. that s why there was no vote today because the progressives are insistent that the president s whole agenda is going to pass. don t break off the little piece of that you did as your experiment, and let the rest of it languish, we re going to do it all the chair of the progressive caucus, told the washington post that the number of democrats in the house willing to vote against the small roads and bridges bill if it was on its own and not coupled with the rest of the agenda, she reported that number was large but still growing. as of last night, she
know, or whether it s infrastructure or otherwise. i don t know but the bottom line is this is very irresponsible for the republicans to do what they re doing right now and quite frankly, it s occupying time it s putting the country on edge it is putting working families and small businesses on edge big businesses too, as far as that goes and hopefully somebody will, like i said, regain some sanity here, and do what s right for the country. senator, while you re here, and before i let you go, i do feel like i want to ask you about just another matter. there was that tragic derailment of an amtrak train, fatal derailment that happened this weekend in montana as far as we can tell, the ntsb did a briefing today, they haven t determined what caused the crash. it s an incredibly rare but very serious thing that happened, i know in asking you to come here today, we were able to learn your staffers have been on the ground assisting investigators do you have any updates to share
a different much larger bill, the build back better bill that includes things like making the child tax credit a permanent thing, which will have a huge impact on child poverty and working class families in this country. almost hard to over state. it will make pre-k and community college universal and free it will create a family and medical leave benefit for all americans. it s a whole host of climate initiatives to transition the country to renewable fuels, and electric vehicles, more on that later, and not only do the vast majority of elected democrats in the house and senate support that entire agenda, importantly, the vast majority of the american people support it too every single poll shows broad support for pretty much every element of president biden s plan this doesn t happen in nature, but it is happening with this bill many of the proposals are popular, even among republican voters so when those handful of conservative democrats in the senate, tiny handful more like a pinch
and i would just ask the republicans to do what s right, and what s right here is to keep the government up by passing a continuing resolution, and extend the debt ceiling so we don t default on our debt. i will say what you have already said many times, this money, this debt has already been accrued. this isn t about stopping the debt this is about stopping paying for the debt and if this happened in business, it would be the kiss of death for that business because this is, i mean, in your words, this is so stupid, because this is such a self-inflicted wound that has no up side at all that serves as no sort of, you know, deterrence or constraint on any kind of fiscal responsibility, it s just hurting the country, in the world, and hurting american families at home, because it is so dumb, should it be within republicans power to stop the country from addressing this problem, from hitting this wall,