getting away, you know, with highway robbery, this recent tax cut that the republicans passed that gave away billions of dollars to the richest people and corporations in this country. if we re talking about those issues, we re going to win. that s what she was talking about. the question is how do you break that message through? because trump wants to distract people so democrats don t have a chance to prove what they have to offer. and that s the challenge to overcome. do you think, robby, on the shutdown, and on this wide gap that exists between wall funding that the president wants, that it would behoove democrats to meet him in the middle here? you just heard debbie dingell on with me who said i m kind of maybe around the jackie speier number, and representative jackie speier said she would be willing to give $2.5 billion for wall funding if they got a daca deal. do you think strategically, democrats should come forward with a number that is higher that $1.3 billion, and would i
are asking for a one bedroom? how much? a million-two. that is highway robbery. who would honestly pay that to live in east liberty? they re calling it east side now. who s calling it that? no one i know. it s a boondoggle if i ever saw one. beside the greed factor, she didn t actually mind the condos. better than leaving the building empty. anthony: stewart o nan is a local author who has written 15 novels, many set in pittsburgh. stewart: we are the city that made the steel, that beat the confederacy, beat the kaiser, built the skyscrapers, built the bridges, beat the nazis. anthony: who came, in the very beginning, lured by jobs in
stewart: oh , arlene said, as they passed the old nabisco plant. cleaned up and advertising condominiums. have you heard how much they are asking for a one bedroom? how much? a million-two. that is highway robbery. who would honestly pay that to live in east liberty? they are calling it east side now. who s calling it that? no one i know. it s a boondoggle if i ever saw one. beside the greed factor, she didn t actually mind the condos. better than leaving the building empty. anthony: stewart o nan is a local author who has written 15 novels, many set in pittsburgh. stewart: we are the city that made the steel, that beat the confederacy, beat the kaiser. built the skyscrapers, built the bridges, beat the nazis.
economics of opportunity. the democrat criticism of this bill has been that this is a heist, that this is highway robbery. that s how democrats think about your hard earned money. they think they own it and this bill is about giving businesses and individuals more of their hard earned money back. so they can grow the economy. they are way better at it than the government. they just told you you should celebrate if you re an american making $50,000 a year they will give you a $700 tax cut. that s the same size tax cut obama gave you. however, they are giving goldman sachs a $6 million tax cut. they gave money to republican congress members and working people. working people don t have lobbyists to get that. jon: hold on, rachel. your response. the biggest banks, the
that from zach mechanics here. democrats slammed to the bill as highway robbery, i am quoting them now. giving away to the super rich and just plain cool. they said the g.o.p. will pay at the polls. but republican senators pushed back, watch. there is a very different view among the democrats, democrats did not participate, they voted against this from the very beginning and i think the reason for that is that they have a different view of the world. a view in which you send your money to washington and washington spends it for you. we want the american people to spend their own money. harris: chris van hollen is a member of the senate budget committee, he joins me from capitol hill. i don t know if you could hear the fiery discussion on set but we have a democratic strategist who says you guys didn t have an opportunity to put your voices in. i read something different. what happened? what happened is we have certain principles going into this tax debate and one of them was that