members of the house will be getting back to work this week, but a major priority right now is wrangling with the details of a potential bill to deal with the border, and aid to ukraine. last night president biden reiterated his support for legislation that would give him the authority to shut down the border if it becomes overwhelmed. also last night, donald trump said he would rather have no border deal than a bad one. so had much support is the current legislation garnering in the congress? joining us now is nanette california, she is the chair of the congressional hispanic caucus. welcome to you congressman have you seen any text, legislative text, of this potential border security bill? not a single word. we don t know what s in the details. we only know what is reported, we only know vaguely what the white house shared, but no text at all. there s really no way to say whether it s fantastic in great, as we re hearing some people say, and we don t know how bad it
in addition, it also changes the circumstance for people on medicare by putting a cap of a maximum $2,000 a year no matter how many prescriptions they have. which is especially important for people with cancer and long-term diseases. it s a god send. it will be a god send for many families. second, the bill locks in place lower health care premiums for the next three years for millions of families that get coverage under the affordable care act. they will meet an average savings of $800 a year for 13 million people. third, it invests $369 billion, granted i called for $500 plus, but it invests $369 billion to secure our energy future and address the climate crisis, bringing down family energy bills by hundreds of dollars, but providing working families tax credits. it gives folks rebates to buy new and efficient appliances, to weather rise their homes and tax credits for heat pumps and rooftops solar. it also to buy any electric vehicle or fuel cell vehicle. new or used. it a
process about $290 billion and in addition, also changes the circumstance for people on medicare by putting a cap of a maximum $2,000 a year they have to pay no more than $2,000 a year no matter how many prescriptions they have. for all the prescription drugs. which is especially important for people with cancer, and long-term diseases. it s a god send. literally be a god send for many families. second, the bill locks in place lower health care premiums for the next three years for millions of families that get coverage under the affordable care act. average savings of $800 a year for 13 million people. third, invests $369 billion, granted i call for 500 plus, but invests $369 billion to secure energy future and address the climate crisis, bringing down family energy bills by hundreds of dollars by providing working families tax credits. it gives folks rebates to buy new and efficient appliances and weatherize their homes, and tax cuts for heat pumps and rooftop solar, and ta
how are you running for senate and you don t know that what we re talking about, the health care coverage gap, we are talking about people who work every day. some of them have two or three jobs, and they don t have health care. those are the two choices, alex. georgia votes in two days. all right, so he ll, thank you so much for all of that. we re going to bring in greg bluestein, msnbc political contributor and reporter for the atlanta general constitution. also author of flipped, how georgia turned purple and broke the monopoly on republican power. greg, as gil mentioned there, the 76,000 voters in georgia didn t turn out the general election. they did vote early in this particular election. and we know that democratic early voters outpace republicans by 12% are you ready to say that this election is leaning in senator warnock s favor? can you make that kind of prediction based on these numbers? i predict it s leaning and senator warnock s favor because even republicans here i
the cost of preschool, housing, keeping students and helping students with the cost of college, closing the health care coverage gap. it s a fancy way of saying health care coverage gap, expanding medicaid in states that refuse to do it and more. look, this bill is far from perfect. it s a compromise. but that s often how progress is made, by compromises. and the fact is that my message to congress is this, this is the strongest bill you can pass, it will lower inflation, cut the deficit, reduce health care costs, tackle the climate crisis and promote energy security. all the time while reducing the burdens facing working class and middle class families. so pass it. pass it for the american people. pass it for america. i ll have more to say on this later. now i want to thank leaders