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Congressional leaders have hashed out a massive, year-end catchall bill that combines $900 billion in Covid-19 aid with a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill and reams of other unfinished legislation on taxes, energy, education and health care. Since the details of the bill came to light, Americans strongly criticized major sections of it. Internet strongly slammed the government for allocating $600 stimulus checks and $300 bonus benefits. Now, the bill is getting backlash for the amount of $1 Billion, which is allocated for the creation of two new Smithsonian Museums.
A whopping amount of $1 Billion will be used to build two new Smithsonian museums. The two museums will be, the Womenâs History Museum and the National Museum of the American Latino as new Smithsonian museums located near the National Mall, Washington DC.
members for connors who are in the military. they also deal with issues like gender identity, with high deductible health plans, the opioid crisis in the context of just normal everyday family life, here s a family that s confronting these issues wrestling with them, not retreating to different sides but having an exchange and a back and forth about them. again, americans can identify. american who are in the white working class but also americans of all others who can can relate on a lot of these levels. a show like this has the opportunity to make connections. salena said middle class, working class folks and that minorities, as well disproportionately tend to go to war, tend to be in the military more than others. i want to talk about, this is from matt lewis wrote a piece for the daily caller called how roseanne gave us donald trump.
it says if the cosby show helped pave the way for barack obama s election, it might be said rose anne was a harbinger for trump s candidacy. the cosby show was about an affluent black family. roseanne about a working class white family. do tv shows like those give americans a glimpse of other people s lives? i think they do. seeing that representation of yourself on television is meaningful. you know, whether you re a minority and now you have a show like blackish or off the boat you can feel you identify with. hollywood is generally pretty disconnected from the white working class. there are a handful of shows on television right now that feature them. but for the most part, a lot of tv is aspirational. a lot of people supposed to be middle class on tv if you notice live in houses that look more like buckingham palace than the typical middle class. roseanne s family lives in a
she s always been in touch with that. but also that the struggles they have with their points of view. so that family wasn t a cookie cutter but it was very similar to what i see when i m on the campaign trail or when i m out reporting that people may support trump but don t fit into the mold of who you think their entire family is. joe anna, you have a piece. yes. out in politico called how trump inspired the rose anne reboot. talk to me what s behind this. i talked for a piece to one of the producers at the show who told me one of the intentions they had was to have a conversation that a lot of american families are not having today. families are divided. we kind of have gone into our separate facebook feeds and unfriended people. you go to family gatherings and sometimes politics is such a toxic topic people don t discuss it in the open. they wanted to use the connors as a proxy family for a lot of americans and get a lot of these
oh, puleeze. joining me celine azito and joe and that a contributor to politico magazine. good evening. hey, salena. president trump won the election because he appealed to and spoke directly to americans a lot like roseanne andler family who felt no one was listening to them. what do you think about the return of the show. i think it s a great moment and here s why. some i ve been writing about this and talked about this on your show before that there s a cultural disconnect between would and a lot of america. a lot of people are portrayed on television that are in main street america. they re usually the butt of a joke as opposed to more sympathetic or empathetic. i think she did a good job of showing the struggles that the family is having.