be held accountable. plus, the dangers of redistricting to the democratic party and. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, the nationwide baby formula shortage has been a terrifying experience for lots of families. which is why congress and the white house just took action. the house passed two bills, one which will make it easier for poor families to access formula. that passed with near universal support, that s good. the second bill, designed to address the baby formula crisis by giving the food and drug administration $20 million, that bill was opposed by nearly 200 house republicans. just voted no. that may come as a surprise to you if you pay attention to politics over the past few weeks republicans across the country have been using the formula shortage as a cudgel to attack democrats ahead of november s midterm elections. the attacks were everywhere. the highest ranking republican in the house, held. on the formal issue last week. right
economic agenda, such as it exists, which can be a little bit hard to figure out, is wildly unpopular. cut taxes for the wealthiest americans, give handouts to kneecap labor unions, do nothing to improve the regular lives of regular working people. which is why, when donald trump first ran for president 2016, he didn t really focused on his economic agenda or the republicans economic agenda. he ran a nativist campaign. built on culture war grievances and white identity politics in trade. that was one area policy, trade. where he disagreed with republican mainstream. correctly so. intuit inc. people wanted to hear. but then once he actually took office, remember this, there was one big gorgeous late of domestic policy accomplishment, it was an enormous tax cut, focused on corporations, the largest corporate tax cut in 30 years, and it was also disproportionate going to the wealthy. and it is worth noting that the