now personally controls disney s board, which includes the book banner cofounder of moms if liberty, the head of the orlando chapter of the federalist society, and a pastor who thinks tapwater turns people gay. desantis thinks they will make disney world the happiest place on earth again, at least for white christian nationalists. the gays and blacks, not so much. again, not sorry. one more thing about this new war on woke defamation bill. it applies to journalists too. and would clear the way for your favorite supreme court majority led by anti-woke political crusader sam alito to gut the first amendment and make journalists even outside florida stop reporting anything that makes conservatives mad. i ll explain after the break. ar? - if i would ve used kayak to book our car, we could have saved on our trip instead of during our trip. ughh - kayak. search one and done.
buzz a business across this country to try and fund the bloated biden agenda that, frankly, has been driving inflation that we haven t seen in 40 some years plus. so we have a mandate. you saw it week, it started with those 87,000 irs agents, defunding them. and as we go forward with the budgeting process, the senate s going to find out there is the a new force in town, it s a republican majority led by kevin mccarthy in the house. neil: as you know, democrats have come back to clarify on that, and this is all part of the inflation reduction act, congressman, that there respect 87,000 irs agents, that this is over a 10-year period, many of them are, in fact, office staff and personnel and, you know, half existing irs work force including agents are retirement age, so they can go. so we re not talking a number anywhere near that. what do you say? well, listen, the cbo says it is 87,000. if any reason that they re not going to have the 87,000, it s
singled them out by name and said they would get it done. they ve done kind of a lot in the these couple of years. who says washington is broken? this past congress got a lot done, a lot of stuff that people said couldn t get done, they got it done. and at noon tomorrow by the power vested in the united states constitution, this congress, this profoundly productive congress will, poof, into the history books. it will end at noon tomorrow. whereupon it is not at all clear that it will be replaced by a new congress. i know over the last few weeks you ve probably seen the headlines about kevin mccarthy, the top republican in the house. heading into the midterm elections the republicans thought they d get, you know, 40, 50, even 60-vote majority out of the midterm elections. turns out they got a net gain of just nine seats. and that teeny tiny majority led to all these headlines which you
marriages but not for same-sex couples. those will be on the docket when this new justice takes place. the court, the trump majority, conservative majority led by the three trump justices is not going to change but what do you look for from this impact of this new justice, left of center, escues me, like justice breyer. she brings distinctive experience in addition to this historic demographic. first time in 233 years to have a black woman joining the court. but she s also a former federal public defender, a trial court judge. she s got very deep experience, very deep experience on the bech. more than many of the other justices when they joined. and several of the justices talked about what it s been like when a first joins them. sandra day o connor talked about when thurgood marshall, the first black justice appointed in 1967, joined the conference room and brought that perspective in. so even though her vote at this
majority led by john roberts gutted the other big central provision in the act back in 2013. those two sections, section two and section five, for the most important ways of enforcing changes to voting laws either before the factor after the fact and they both have been significantly weekend. now, the need for federal legislation is stronger than ever. there s a question about whether there s any conceivable universe in which some kind of grand bargain on voting is possible in which democrats create provisions that republicans push to, quote unquote, protects on fraud, like voter i.d. in exchange for guaranteed flora voter protections and access. a couple of weeks ago, we saw a glimmer of what that might look like when you remember a senator joe manchin proposed a change to the for the people act voting bill that did include some voter i.d. provisions. one voting rights advocate stacey abrams endorse those changes the endorsement itself was enough to kill the bill in the minds of repub