to send your kids to their death in war. it s not just money willing to spend money to keep them alive and thriving with healthcare and education and food via child payments, they re willing to spend money to build schools in afghanistan or at least they were in the last 20 years, just not on your kids in education, get day care, universal pre-k, maybe you to be trained in community college. they re willing to spend money as we saw to fix bridges. they re not willing to spend money and relieve your debts, so you can afford a vehicle to drive across those bridges. so we are seeing that there are many things in this country that continue to be priorities regardless of what the budget is, regardless of what is happening. but in a global pandemic, amid a severe threat to democracy, itself, they are unwilling to act to protect the freedom to vote for leaders that deliver for us and they are unwilling
that a framework of such an agreement can be made in time. will progressives follow through and vote no on the infrastructure plan tomorrow? joining me now, the democraticm. if they don t have a bigger deal, will you and your colleagues vote no for a plan that will fix bridges and roads and create more jobs? thank you for having me. i don t think that s going to happen because i don t think speaker pelosi will put a deal on the floor that s going to go down. we always said we support the agenda. the agenda is the build back better plus the infrastructure deal. if you just do the infrastructure deal, that s only 9% of what the president wants done. we re going to get these bills done, i m confident of that, but we need a couple repubon our si
times call for desperate measures. he doesn t have an agenda to run on. 83% of the benefits go to the healthiest 1%. he can t talk about trump care in an effort to take away 23 million americans health care. he can t talk about the fake infrastructure plan that would do nothing to fix bridges, roads and tunnels. he can t talk about his own budget where he threatened to cut $2 trillion from medicare and medicaid. he is talking about impeachment. we want to strengthen the affordable care act. we want to invest 1 trillion in infrastructure. this is why jeffreys will be
controls both houses of congress, that they can t get their act together. so, i ll let them sort that out. but here s what i do know, brooke, from traveling across pennsylvania, i ve been just in the month of august in more than 30 counties, 25 of those 32 were in counties the president carried rather easily, small towns, rural areas, those kinds of counties. and what they want us to do, both parties, in both branches of government, they want us to work together to fix bridges, to bring broadband to rural communities where they have no high speed internet or very limited internet. they want us to focus on lowering prescription drug costs, raising wages, helping out with better ways to pay for college education. so, that s what they expect us to do. but do they understand the longer they don t get along forgive me, senator, for jumping in but that s a great list of things that it s easy to be on the side of, yes, we want those things and particularly want those things but do t
you are enjoying the cheap gas this july fourth? you re not alone. a record number of americans are hitting the roads this holiday. prices at the pump have not been this low in 12 years. what the free market gives, here s some government to take it away. driver in seven states getting slammed with gas tax hikes this week. the money is supposed to pay for roads and fix bridges. drivers still deserve a break. carrie, what do you say about the gas tax hikes? the fact that today is independence day, happy fourth of july, this is freedom to do what we want to do. it makes my heart that we re talking about restricting economic freedom. i used to live in north carolina. i used to driver over to