deal that you are just talking about now, it is not perfect but it was certainly go a long way to helping people in wisconsin. we ve been hurting for far too long, and we desperately need to lower costs as soon as possible to help people deal with inflation. and let medicare negotiate drug prices, that is a huge step forward. we also need to cut taxes on the middle class to give people some breathing room. and we also need to hold oil and gas companies accountable for using inflation as a smokescreen to jack up prices on consumers. and pharmaceutical companies as well. regular people talking about how they are struggling, and i know those struggles, they are my struggles to. and that is why we are here. lieutenant governor mandela barnes of wisconsin hoping to unseat republican incumbent senator, that say ron johnson? mandela barnes, hoping to unseat wisconsin incumbent senator ron johnson. as, always thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. thank you so much for having m
negotiating and working on this has a drug pricing we are able to save costs is fars high cost in pharmaceuticals and bring that down for medicare. let medicare negotiate that was great and i appreciate that. also she s been very adamant about tax increases. we made sure there s no tax increases. loopholes is a different thing. efraim believes we should pay their fair share. she seemed blindsided you didn t bring her in on the decision? i did bring anybody in because i didn t want anyone to be disappointed again. i have gone through eight months smart political thing is do nothing i guess that s what a lot of people do just sit back and do nothing because you can t get criticized for it. i never did quit looking for a better avenue for that solid energy production, reliability and fight inflation for that s what he been trying to do. i did not want to bring anyone into the fold that said this think might fall apart here s a joke going down the road again and were not getting there.
and drug companies will do very, very well. their profit margin. while we re at it, i know we have great disagreements on the floor with this. let s let medicare negotiate the price of prescription drugs. they already set the price for v.a. drugs. look, the american rescue plan is helping millions of families with afford care act plans to save them $24,000 a year on their health agreements. let s close the coverage gap and make these savings permanent. second, let s cut energy costs for families. an average of $500 a year by combatting climate change. let s provide an investment tax credit to weatherize your home and your business, to be energy efficient and get a tax credit