is they would rather have trump win because deregulation is so financially valuable that they prefer that, and what has joe biden done that is so liberal? climate. he s passed a giant bill that s going to help save the planet. they don t want to save the planet. you look at the common sense pamphlet that put out today, there s virtually nothing in it about climate. it s mentioned once and they say we have to do more oil. we do a transition. there s nothing there on climate. they fudge on abortion. i think there are two theories here. one is that, you know, i m not saying i subscribe to this. one is they do have this secret agenda that is right wing or, you know, right of center, that s business oriented, and they want to help trump over all the gop candidates, and they don t like joe biden and the democrats and that s why they re doing this. the other is they don t care. they so much want the attention for themselves, they want to be
if our own people aren t worthy with this money. ainsley: hospital system spending $90 million to house these migrants in hotels. we i is our hospital system are they patients and they don t have the beds for them so putting them in hotels? steve: i think that s the symmetry the producers put in running back-to-back the guy from down in yuma where the hospitals have a giant bill with the same situation here in new york city. $90 million from the new york city hospital system will be going to spend for housing at these hotels through the spring. so, obviously, it s about a well-being thing. keeping people warm when it s cold outside. and currently it s cold outside and we re running up a bill. brian: and if democrats don t show up they can t say that they agree with what they re seeing. they can say well, that s a political stunt. where is senator kelly. where is senator sinema and
today. merry christmas. so republicans debated this giant bill on the floor this morning talking about all the reasons they didn t like it. of course, it did pass as expected 225-201 with close to 230 members voting by proxy. you know, i wonder how many of those members of congress got to even read more than just the highlights of these 4,000 plus pages to see the details of exactly what is in there. i want to listen to senator mike lee on this. there s not a human alive that can digest 4,155 pages of legislative of appropriations text in that short of period of time. that s why this should never happen. republicans in particular who do this should be asked to never ever do it again. we will self-destruct as a party. okay. so some harsh works there. self-destructing as a party. i want to have you react to what
that s how we will hold the majority. there are some within your own party as well as some outside that will say build back better is a progressive wish lift that goes too far and it overstates the mandate president biden got when he was elected. do you think build back better as it is as a giant bill should be passed as is or picked apart and broken into more popular pieces. the first thing i will say and i have this conversation at least once a day where people say, there s so much here. when you go through and you talk about universal preschool, investing in children and expanding the child tax credit, lifting kids out of poverty, making sure we re investing in supply chain, that we are growing our economy and protecting our lead in technology, all of the other things, the individual policies, people say no, i m for that, for that. right. we have to make sure we re working on explaining what is in the bill, why it matters and doing the things that will move us the furthest m
something you ve heard many times on this show before, objections from senator joe manchin of west virginia. he is from, of course, a major coal producing state. he himself has investments in coal brokerages. he profits personally from coal companies, and he has said that he will not support the overall legislation if it has that provision. so as of right now the president has basically conceded publicly unbelievable. that it s almost impossible to pass the broader, this giant bill which contains his entire domestic agenda if it doesn t have that piece. it s unbelievable the way that you just laid it out, that this is being blocked by senator joe manchin, and you know, i wanted to ask you specifically about something the president, what he had to say about these negotiations on thursday. take a listen. the clean electricity performance program, that s been dropped now from this spending bill. no, it hasn t. it has not?