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for roads, there s no reason they shouldn t participate. we laid out the ways to pay for this and i think it doesn t involve raising our taxes. we all know when you raise taxes one place it is felt everywhere. with the stagnation of our economy, we saw slow job growth last month, let s make sure we get everything reopened and the economy fully going full steam. shannon: so the vast majority of your proposal does include hundreds of billions of dollars, you all say in unspent covid funds. here s what the white house says about that, when press secretary jen psaki was asked about it she said here s the reason why that would be difficult to be a key funding mechanism, 95% of it is already allocated somewhere else. democrats say that means you re recently only bringing $250 billion in new spending to the table. it s trillions apart from where the white house started. does it represent real compromise? i think we can get to real compromise, absolutely, because we re both still in the game
for roads, there s no reason they shouldn t participate. we laid out the ways to pay for this and i think it doesn t involve raising our taxes. we all know when you raise taxes one place it is felt everywhere. with the stagnation of our economy, we saw slow job growth last month, let s make sure we get everything reopened and the economy fully going full steam. shannon: so the vast majority of your proposal does include hundreds of billions of dollars, you all say in unspent covid funds. here s what the white house says about that, when press secretary jen psaki was asked about it she said here s the reason why that would be difficult to be a key funding mechanism, 95% of it is already allocated somewhere else. democrats say that means you re recently only bringing $250 billion in new spending to the table. it s trillions apart from where the white house started. does it represent real compromise? i think we can get to real compromise, absolutely, because we re both still in the game
the democrats, to make this work, needed to make it bipartisan. they needed to get something that republicans could come aboard on, at least some republicans, and it looks like they are not even going to be able to persuade republicans who are hostile to the president, like mitt romney, and that will mean this whole effort will be a failure. shannon: all right, professor robert george of princeton, always good to have you with us. thank you so much. thank you. shannon: in other news, a blow to obamacare tonight. federal appeals court striking down a key aspect of the law is unconstitutional. once again. setting up another possible supreme court showdown in a presidential election year. the court finding the lost key funding mechanism, known as the individual mandate, requiring most americans to purchase health insurance or face a tax penalty, was properly eliminated by congress. so the appeals panel sent the case back to the lower court to decide whether other aspects of the affo