joining. time for joe to go. who would be the democratic nominee in 2024? we will tell you. a short time ago the senate passed a massive spending bill called the inflation reduction act after more than 24 hours of debate. democrats were able to get it passed using a process called budget reconciliation which allows them to get around the senate filibuster. vice president kamala harris had to cast the deciding vote. on this vote, it is 50/50. the senate being equally divided the vice president votes in the affirmative and the amendment is passed. [cheering and applause] democrats made it happen even though senator bernie sanders agreed with the congressional budget office. economists and a bipartisan congressional study that found that the bill would not meaningfully reduce inflation. i want to take a moment to say a few words about the so-called inflation reduction act. i say so-called according to the cbo and other economic organizations that have studied this bill.
The September consensus: nearly unanimous. “Voter anxiety over the economy, health care and financial security,” the Washington Post’s Dan Balz observed, “threatens to put Republican candidates across the country on the defensive this fall.”
meaningfully reduce inflation. i want to take a moment to say a few words about the so-called inflation reduction act. i say so-called according to the cbo and other economic organizations that have studied this bill. it will in fact have a minimal impact on inflation. according to the most recent gallup pole, the approval rate for congress is at 16%. little detail on the bill that democrats do not want to talk about is $80 billion to the irs budget adding thousands of agents and thousands of more audits on middle-class americans. senator ted cruz on sunday morning futures says middle-class will pay for this one. those irs agents are designed to come after you. they are designed to come after small businesses and working families across this country. that democrats are making the
his rental kayaks and paddle boards but not enough safe places to put them in and he knows that, big picture, 40 million people and their animals and crops in seven states and mexico depend on colorado river water not to recreate but to live. manmade climate change, um, i do believe is a thing to a certain extent but i do believe the earth goes through cycles, and this could just be another cycle. but i don t see any good evidence of it getting any better anytime soon. reporter: in a first of its kind gallup pole, one in three americans say they have been personally affected by severe weather the past two years and for those who have, regardless of party, they are much more likely to say the climate crisis demands action. but only 3% say they have experienced drought. this may be because for most, tap water keeps flowing and here house boaters keep coming. what do you say to someone who sees this as proof, alarming proof, of sort of a manmade
republican. john lewis switched sides and threw his support to barack obama. obama had emerged as this bright, shining star. it was a decision that i thought was the right decision to make. in the new usa today gallup pole, obama is pulling ahead with a double digit lead with democrats pinning him as their best chance to beat the gop. the stuff we have done overseas and now brought right back into our own front yards! the inflammatory remarks about race and the 9/11 attacks made in sermons by his personal pastor it is important that he figure out how to bring short-term closure to this issue, and if he can t, then he is not going to be president and he might not be the democratic nominee. with relapsing forms of ms. there s a lot to deal with.