here, jonathan, so far we ve got about nine provisions. many of them are actually my bills that are in the for the people act that are bipartisan. things like making sure social media companies are engaging and allowing for misinformation on the vaccine have disclaimers and discloser on their political act ads. there s significant things that so far we have not picked up bipartisan support for the very important concept of national federal voting rights. we also on the john lewis act, senator murkowski voiced interest in supporting that, which is important. so we continue working that route. but the other route, of course, is changing the senate rules. i think you know i m a strong supporter of abolishing the filibuster. it s not only stopping us from passing voting rights reform. it s stopping us from passing immigration reform, climate change, police reform. it s become a tool of mitch mcconnell to stop things in their tracks.
pick up infrastructure, passing immigration reform, a tax cut for businesses that would finance the infrastructure investments, these are ways to grow the economy even faster. the best way to help katherine hackett and 1.3 million people who lost benefitses and 3.6 million others who stand to lose thi benefits this year if congress doesn t act is to grow the economy faster. because the biggest source of gdp growth is when we have more consumption. when you put money in people s pockets, they spend more. when they spend more, businesses hire more, the economy grows. when you take when you get rid of unemployment benefits and when you don t have a fair wage, when the minimum wage as it is now is too low, people don t have money in their pockets and can t spend. and the economy doesn t grow fast enough. i m confident we can move forward. we ve done it before and done it
meeting. when the president speaks, he s expected to speak after the meeting, we will bring you those remarks. good evening. president trump pushing house republicans to get this done, passing immigration reform plan this week. foxes learned the compromise bill that the house leadership has crafted would take steps to address the parent and child being separated at the border issue, what is become the critical topic here on capitol hill. if you happen to be a poor person, we re going to yank that baby out of the mother s arms. democrats blasting president trump for blaming congress over parents being separated from their children. that is a load of crap. it really it s just wrong. give me a break. everybody knows that. senator republican leaders are hopeful they can address the narrow issue as soon as this week. we are going to fix the problem. the president says we need to