it for today? joe: wow, yesterday i asked why the fentanyl crisis isn t being addressed, it is leading killer of those between 18 and 49, yet we barely hear anything about it from this white house. that is a good one. today i would love to know why is it easier to vote in the state of delaware, joe biden s home state, a senator there for many years, i m sorry, harder to vote in delaware or in new york where chuck schumer resides and been a senator for decades than in georgia, which the president compares to jim crow 2.0 in terms of voting laws there. explain that. one more. can you explain how passing build back better, trillions in new spending, would lower inflation and the deficit, how does the math work on that? questions like that. they are not gotcha, they are
nick, you have a piece about the subpoenas today? something just clicked into place today. i am just going to say it to you, and get your reaction. when i first saw the story, i was like, you know, what is new mexico doing right now? the other states, there is a lot of attention paid to, them georgia, wisconsin, pennsylvania, what is the deal with new mexico? it is not until our second producer alec had pointed out that line in the johnny stoneman memo that i went back in, read that basically union new mexico to make the math work. that the seven states isn t an accident, but that it is all having to add up to enough to take enough votes out of the electoral college to make the coup work for mike pence. which suggests that there is a real level of sophisticated plotting that went into this. yes. or at least the ability to do very basic math.
bill. we don t even know if joe manchin will participate. these caucus calls are not the kind of thing where attendance is mandatory, and even though joe manchin is the cause of this call, his office isn t saying one way or another whether he ll be on it. after some kind of cooling-off period over the holiday break, you ll see some elements of this bill resuscitated in some way, and it s going to have to have joe manchin s blessing. it could be a very bitter pill to swallow for the rest of the party, but there is just not a way to make the math work without joe manchin s buy-in. and joe manchin understands the power leverage that he has, and he s been using it to his advantage. now they re hearing leaks about what joe manchin was saying behind closed doors about their own constituents, about how they might use the child tax credit for drugs, and how men who get paid time off will go hunting,
$3 trillion over the next decade. three trillion dollars. as the bill is currently written, the cbo estimates it would only add $367 billion to the bunlt deficit over a decade. okay? so 3 trillion, versus 367 billion. okay. that is night and day and it is dramatic. and the thing here is that is because as the bill was written, it was written over a ten-year time horizon but to make the math work, they assumed certain programs would only be around for a year. like the child tax credit. that key program lasts only one year in the bill the way they wrote it. so put it in there, it s there for one year and then goes away completely. universal pre-k. funding for childcare. that is set to expire in six years in the bill. i mean, come on. we all know those are intended to be permanent programs and you don t have to, like, just ask me and take my assumption for it. just listen to progressives. elected progressives on capitol hill. they are honest about that. we have done this for a year,