what is wrong with us? stop it. what is wrong with us. what is wrong with us indeed. we ll have to end with that rhetorical question but hopefully we ll find out this week there is something right with us and get it passed. because senator manchin, love america. love america. vote for your people. i hope he is listening to you. i hope he is listening to you, michael. i withish we could talk for longer, but we re out of time. i don t know. we re out of time. we ll have to leave it there. michael moore always appreciate the conversation. thank you. thank you so much, mehdi. next, the outrageous round up at the texas border this week. looked just like something out of the trump administration. my 60-second rant next on what we re still ignoring about our immigration policy. don t go away. not last all day? secret works immediately! and is designed to last for up to 48 hours. with secret, keep it fresh. available in over 10 amazing scents and aluminum free. secret helen knew
again. there is nothing moderate about opposing action on climate change or trying to make sure ordinary american families can just get by day to day. and yet you have democratic senator krysten sinema taking money from big pharma and democratic senator manchin and his family company basking in coal money while blocking paid family leave and child care for their constituents. perhaps we have to start talking about dinos. democrats in name only. they won t say what they want to cut just a smaller bill. president biden literally said to senator manchin in the oval office last week give me a number. manchin s response? quote, i think a good reconciliation bill could be done whenever. the cynicism, the bad faith. how on earth can biden negotiate with people who seem to have no care for their party s agenda or fellow americans, their own constituents?
senators manchin and sinema don t do the right thing especially for the people of their states. what i have suggested to joe biden not that i have a daily conference call with him or anything but what i suggested is that he should just ask joe manchin and krysten sinema, what do you need? what does arizona need? what does west virginia need? i can guarantee you that all people who voted for biden whether they re left, left center, center, independents, whatever. they would say tonight, president biden, give joe manchin and krysten sinema what they need for their states and before this comes down to a vote early in the morning senator manchin call joe biden and say, i will go along with this but i need these things for my state because my state is hurting. and just the problem is i think the problem is that they don t care about their constituents. they care more about their donors.
who s up? who s down? sinema and manchin versus biden and pelosi. but it is important to realize, that s not really what matters in the end. because the main story here that should bother all of us is that the american people are suffering for no good reason. they ve been gas lighted. why is it that the u.s. is the only industrialized country that cannot guarantee health care or child care or family leave for its citizens? now you have even top democrats in congress supposedly centrist, moderates, realists, saying sorry, america. you can t have what everyone else has. i m sorry but they re lying to you. we can afford $3.5 trillion over ten years. we can afford to tax the super rich. we can afford to guarantee basic rights and living standards to the people of this country. 11 senators including bernie sanders released a statement earlier this week demanding the passage of not just part but all of the biden agenda reading in
regardless the vote is coming. speaker pelosi is racing to ensure she has enough votes to pass the infrastructure bill and the big budget reconciliation bill. moments ago she announced that the vote on that bipartisan infrastructure framework will be held on monday and the budget reconciliation on thursday with debate beginning tomorrow. the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill is coming. it is coming to a theater near you. we re ready to vote for both. we are excited to vote for both. we will vote for both. but we need to actually get the reconciliation bill done. i support reconciliation, so do my colleagues, you know, we meet all the time. let me tell you, we all agree we need a reconciliation package and i think that is important for everyone to understand. but that doesn t mean these are two separate bills. joe biden is saying today he is optimistic about what will happen in congress this week. but let s not forget the bigger picture. it is easy to treat this all like a polit