coming to either infrastructure or to the reconciliation. these are priorities that the president identified, that president biden ran on, that the majority of people support so democrats really don t have a choice but to deliver this for the president that they supported. you said don t count speaker pelosi out. she spoke today talking about cost negotiations on the reconciliation package. let s play that for just a moment. there will have to be changes with that. sooner the better to build the consensus to go forward and we will do that. sounds like you acknowledge that the final number is smaller than that. yeah. that seems self evident. everybody overwhelmingly i think even those that want a smaller number support the vision of the president. this is really transformative. i want your perspective.
democratic congresswoman nick ima williams. thanks for spending time with us this saturday. how confident are you that you and fellow progressives can be won over in time for the planned vote on the infrastructure bill. thank for having me, pam, to have the conversation. i think what people are missing is you should never count speaker pelosi out. i support her long-term vision of advancing reconciliation along with the bipartisan infrastructure bill. and until we are at that last minute and can t get it done i m sticking with my speaker. i know she is working behind the scenes and continuing to have the conversations to get it done. we can t have an infrastructure package that doesn t include people. and so i will continue to talk about how we need to make sure that we re building roads and bridges. but we have to do this with the vision of the biden administration, which is building back better, including people as a part of the infrastructure package. i m not willing to leave the
takes and i know that we ve got a oath loalot of work to do. she s ready to hit the ground running on day one. politico has an article that looks like thee additional law makers or members-elect who have confirmed to politico that they intend to oppose pelosi afternoon the floor, conor lamb of pennsylvania, abigail spangerger, jason crow of colorado, could put the total number of opponents at 19, which means this may be a fight, you may be involved in a campaign of some sort. well, i would not count leader pelosi out. you know, she s very capable of voting to 50% plus 1, and i m sure that she has been making the rounds talking to members about what they re looking for and what their requests would be. you know, an exit poll from nbc news on election night indicated that nancy pelosi has an unfavorable rating of 56% versus a favorable of 31%. to what you dough attribudo you?
arguably, that face has changed some. where do you stand on the issue of nancy pelosi as the next speaker of the house? i will be supporting nancy pelosi for speaker. i think that she has what it takes and i know that we ve got a lot of work to do. she s ready to hit the ground running on day one. politico has an article that looks like thee additional law makers or members-elect who have confirmed to politico that they intend to oppose pelosi floor, conor lamb of pennsylvania, abigail spangerger, jason crow of colorado, could put the total number of opponents at 19, which means this may be a fight, you may be involved in a campaign of some sort. well, i would not count leader pelosi out. you know, she s very capable of voting to 50% plus 1, and i m sure that she has been making the rounds talking to members about what they re looking for and what their requests would be. you know, an exit poll from
was surprised her pay went up, she said that will more than cover cosco membership for the year. he was being sincere on this and she was excited. paul ryan delete his embarrassing tweet because he and republicans don t want you to know the truth, the #gop tax scam is a gift to corporate america and top 1% at your expense and he also doesn t want you to know that he got $500,000 from the koch family. well, i look at beyond the tweets, if you look at the pelosi out of nancy plasy s party, i will take the party of paul ryan any day. you look at wages, stagnant under eight years, just since president trump took office wages have come up 3%, that s