target is in the spotlight now. register every voter that comes into target. register them. if you re in a state with a strict voter id law, figure out how to get that voter id. they have enormous footprints. rather than putting money into little states which is what these places are becoming, put the money into all the ways that help every day citizens, your employees, your customers, be lifted in our democracy. there are so many people purged. that will help get them back on the rolls. target, this he can play an enormous role. and that way they re not getting into this back and forth of who they re giving to. they re doing a much broader purpose of lifting democracy. the book goes through so many specifics of how individual nonprofits and individuals and companies large and small can be playing a huge role in lifting democracy. and the importance of local media, by the way, helping that to build up these we have to go. top of the hour. but to building up and coveri
spending. under donald trump, they added $2 trillion to the deficit because they gave tax cuts to the wealthiest. that is spending. i think the american people understand that that s what needs to change. we need to roll back the tax cuts and actually make sure that we are reducing the deficit by making the wealthiest pay their fair share. by cutting working people s benefits. very well aware of what the 2017 tax cuts did. and to your point, you pointed out yesterday the policies proposed by the white house and all of this is that the republicans rejected which included ending some of the tax cuts, oil subsidies, et cetera. let me end on. this you ve been a big voice in the progressive caucus. urging the biden administration to envoek the 14th amendment here. to ignore the debt limit. raise it saying, look, they have that constitutional authority. janet yellen said that is questionable. the biden administration viewed it as problematic. i thought it was interesting. senate majority w
should we cut spending? they will probably say yes. however, if you say, you would rather cut spending and reduce the deficit by cutting the tax breaks to the wealthiest corporations and wealthiest individuals or would you like to cut your own health care education, you know, care for veterans, et cetera? i guarantee you that you would have even higher numbers that say let s make sure that we re making the wealthy pair their fair share. that is the other thing that we re saying. that s not what the poll says. the this is the exact question asked wlachlt should congress do on the debt ceiling? raise only spending cut. 60%. raise no matter what, 24%. not raise, let u.s. default, 15%. these are what they re saying to this critical question. yeah. go ahead. i understand. poppy, you can t take tax cuts out of spending. you know, tax cuts for the wealthiest are spending. don t think that that isn t
makes u.s. less reliable. that is a big discussion. what is going to happen a week from today? at that point, janet yellen said there is not enough money to pay all the obligations. you assume they pay interest on the debt and principle payments to investors. that means social security checks will likely not be cut. that means, you know, government contractors could not see payments. we don t know exactly what that looks like. the treasury department hasn t said how they ll pick and choose which pibills to pay. right now we re sitting in front of only bad choices. that s what we re looking at now. a bunch of really bad choices here unless by some miracle they were to raise this debt ceiling and continue talking. if they could make some sort of agreement to continue talking on their philosophical spending