you can predict what s going to happen here if it comes through. it will get lost in the debate of it s not enough, that sort of thing. it s easy for accomplishments like this to get lost in the noise. there are accomplishments. they do have accomplishments. obama would have given his eye teeth for a gun bill or an infrastructure bill. trump probably would have if he had ever actually tried to get one, really liked to have an infrastructure bill. why do you think it is that it s not cutting through? in some cases, take for instance, some of the big spending that happened in the first yooer of the biden administration. a hot of voters say is that why my groceries cost so much, is that why my gas costs so much? even if an economist comes in and says i have six charts to show you why that s not the case, for voters they re saying i feel like biden came into office and all of a sudden everything about my economic life got turned a bit topsy turvy. for democrats i think saying hey, look
democrats are here in the snathd and healthy next week. there s a same-sex marriage bill with a cloud of uncertainty. doesn t have the votes needed to break a filibuster. lisa murkowski is leaning toward it and not clear where the other five come from and mitch mcconnell said they won t announce how they vote until chuck schumer doesn t want to bring it up without the votes. there s a resolution to admit finland and sweden into nato and in the house they could vote on a tiger king bill. you heard that correctly. banning private ownership of large cats and tigers. and then a gun bill. it s likely to die in the senate
that generally speaking, democrats are jittery and they have been giving president biden relatively low marks that he s been a disappointment. it s unclear to know if that presents real peril for him in 2024 or if they won t vote for him again if he runs or if it s a general sense of dissatisfaction. one problem is that this was a problem of biden s own making when he ran. he referred to himself as a transitional candidate, transitioning to the post trump era. and that created this it s where democrats were able to see in him during the 2020 election whatever they wanted to get them to vote for him. but now after being on the job and some being disappointed he hasn t pushed through voting rights or gun bill, or that he hasn t acted on forgiving student loans, others don t
the offer by senator joe manchin to pass a skinny bill, lowering prescription drug pricing and including a two-year funding extension for insurance subsidies under the affordable care act. it means climate change funding will be likely excluded. one lawmakers lamented that president biden s agenda went from a full loaf to half a loaf to a piece of toast. he said a piece of toast is better than nothing. do you get a sense of a lot of what we re seeing, particularly on the house side, is largely symbolic because the numbers in the senate aren t there for a lot of these measures? reporter: very likely on the gun bill. it s not even clear that will get a vote on the house of representatives. that would require pretty much unanimous support in the democratic caucus. speaker pelosi said it it had great support in the caucus but she didn t say it would come to the floor. of course in the senate it would require 60 votes. you saw how difficult it was for the senate to get 60 votes with
focused on inflation and the day to day issues that are touching people s lives. i think that s the best argument that democrats have going into the fall. i think they should campaign on some of the accomplishments that have been belittled that are really quite important of biden s, but it s really about making this a choice. that s the choice that they have to paint. so yes, i do agree with that. the interesting strategic question for schumer is, if you put it on the floor, does it give some republicans a chance to get well? does it you remember mitch mcconnell joined republicans to vote for the compromise gun bill. my view was he did that because he understood the party was looking, tacking too far to the right. suburban voters were beginning to drift. he wanted to signify that there was a moderate or a more moderate group in the republican party. and that is the case here. but on the merits, you know, i hope they do vote on it. there was a new york times poll, i believe it was