Cheers, michael. Welcome back to the weekend, everyone. Election day is 66 weeks i gave early voting kicks off in pennsylvania in just 16 days. To win, vice president kamala harris knows democrats need to grow their coalition and part of that means reaching out to conservative leaning voters. In her first major interview as a democratic nominee, she promised to welcome republican voices to her administration if she wins in november. I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it is important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences. I think it would be to the benefit of the american public to have a member of my cabinet who was a republican. Joining us now is olivia troye, former homeland security and terrorism adviser to mike pence. When i heard that i was like, that michael steele for commerce secretary. I could put on a tie. I would be happy to do that. It would be an honor
will still from the house who did pass the bill to make it happen but right now the biggest losers of course are the american people who could have benefited from a bill that worked on disabled care, expanded benefits for elder care, the expanded tax credit as was discussed in the previous segment, family leave, climate change, so many other big ticket items that are important certainly to many voters and the democratic party. and the progressives in the house that they complained so much about went ahead, some kicking and screaming, and passed the infrastructure part with the promise that they would do that in the senate. yes. and with manchin s announcement this morning that has not borne fruit as of yet unless we can see something happen. sarah, with the collapse of the build back better bill negotiations that they were going around that bill, the long simmering tensions between progressive and centrist
but there are also some protections this morning that things are looking up and some prices are going down. joining me right now is mark sandy, the chief economist for moody s analytics. it s very clear the white house has had this big spending bill will help control inflation. it s also clear joe manchin doesn t agree. who is right? i would say neither. it s neither here nor there when it comes to inflation, kate. this is about long-term economic growth. all else being equal, this should take the edge off, improve labor productivity, that s the infrastructure part of the bill. it should help to grow labor force participation. inflation is really not the issue when it comes to this piece of legislation. which is why i wanted to ask you, because it s interesting it s come so much into the conversation about this legislation of recent.
on this climate trip for example where only the bipartisan infrastructure frame work in hand. that say regressive bill when it comes to climate. 500 billion investing in climate as part of the build back better act is a good thing, but where is that 500 billion going to put us, to help us reach our 2035 and 2040 goals? so still a lot to work out. we need to see bill text before we decide what we re going to do in terms of a vote. you say the bill is regressive. he can t just go with the infrastructure part of it. if he appeals to you tomorrow, can you reach an agreement on the infrastructure part before he leaves? i would love to see bill text and i would love the opportunity to go through the bill text line by line. you know, i m new here. i ve only been here ten months but i can tell you that there have been times where we have received bill text 30 minutes