Liberals rejected demands from moderate Democrats to shrink President Biden’s domestic policy agenda by more than half, though they said they were willing to compromise.
Now with so many things in the air, we talked about the negotiation bills being negotiated. let s start with first, the right to vote. the fact that the john lewis voting rights act still not passed and signed into law. protections against run away state legislatures to say they have the power to throw out votes they don t like. nothing to protect voters from that disenfranchise. yeah, rise up. this message is more important today than ever. absolutely. one of the negative side effects of the last 48 hours back in florida where the infrastructure debate has been voting rights and other issues
Margaret, good morning. president biden attended that congressional baseball game last night. he s talking with republicans and democrats while his plan to help american families ream i hangs in the balance here. is he going to be able to be the closer in chief that he wants to be? the closer it might feel like a baseball game, right? nine innings, infrastructure debate, it s like a 32-inning game. no base hits and a bunch of foul balls, four different presidents, you know. the way biden has handled this so far has been largely to focus on kind of who can unlock, you know, the key to this, which has been looking through the senate and looking in particulate sinema and manchin, these two senators who seem to be the biggest roadblocks. the thinking was after that, if he can get them to a place where they can commit at least verbally to something around the spending bill, that would give progressives the space they
P.m. this afternoon. this is by facing one trouble some front after another from the border search to the specte of a government shutdown over raising the debt ceiling to the infrastructure debate on capito hill. all as democrats push them bide bill spending bonanza. the one that he claimed that th widow would cost $0 and add $0 to the national debt, claims some called economically illiterate. if pass the plan would include $12 billion for electric cars for postal workers and federal employees. 3 billion for what democrats call tree equity. another 59 million for resource centers for racial and ethnic minorities. and $25 million for bias training. to pay for it democrats want to hand the irs $79 billion to strengthen tax enforcement. let s not talk about numbers.
They have to give people a reason to turn out. larry, put this infrastructure debate into the context, because the democratic message in 2020 was, listen, we re competent we re going to get big stuff done and we re in september here and really you ve gotten covid relief, but these other priorities have been sitting on the shelf. how important is this week not just for the president but for democratic lawmakers down the ballot? well, extremely important. the truth is i think they will compromise because they have to. the alternative is electoral disaster. and usually politicians when faced we electoral disaster will do what they never thought they could do, compromise nor than they had intended to. i ll bet you that very line might be in this memo circulating from the biden white house and democratic lawmakers this week. harry and larry, thank you. see you at a comedy venue