other appliances and so. on the prescription drug bill that we passed, that one republican vote is going to, as you know, make insulin for seniors, $35 a month starting in january. hearing aids are now sold over the counter through the actions of the biden administration. and others. bringing down energy costs, we have actually seen a couple weeks, now gas prices going up. but the truth is with all of this, they root for failure, while we are taking on big pharma, big oil, the gun lobby, corporations don t pay their taxes. and we are tackling, what is inflation. absolutely. you shut down the economy worldwide and all the sudden the supply chains breakdown. i m not surprised that we have seen this craziness and inflation. the question, is who is doing something about? it would tackling the courts, we re tackling the costs of trucking and rails, point by point by point, and they don t like it. and their bodies.
what are democrats going to be able to do this summer? the next month is critical to the president s legacy in terms of legislating. time is up. we have august recess coming up. then it s election season when they come back. it s very likely republicans are going to be in charge next congress. i don t think it s overstating it to say the next three or four weeks, whatever democrats are able to get done is all joe biden will have to show for big legacy legislative items. they re whittled it down from something that was very expansive. now they re trying to get done a prescription drug bill, maybe a few other things on the margin. this is so critical. it s a reminder how razor thin their margin is. joe manchin is out. one senator being gone could throw away his chance to do anything the rest of the time. this has been a pretty big failure as a legislative matter.
gasoline. let s focus on what we can do to minimize the chances. white house officials say it s up to congress to pass legislation right now that will wind up helping american families with these high prices, the result of inflation. how much can you really do in the house of representatives? we could pass tomorrow the prescription drug bill to lower prescription costs. we can pass a bill that will tax the wealthy. that will help in lowering our deficit and make it so the fed doesn t have to act as drastically, and the bipartisan innovation bill, with semi-conductor manufacturing here, that s going to help because there are a lot of products that are reliant on overseas semi-conductors. we can act and we must act. that doesn t mean we re going to prevent inflation or a recession, but we give ourselves the best shot. if there s a recession and inflation continues to grow, how serious of a problem is this for democrats coming up in the
one is health care, democrats in congress lowered health care premiums for americans the first couple months in office and are working to extend those, as well as empowering medicare. not a single republican in the house or senate wants to join us and my question is why not? you raise a good point. joe manchin says i m not on board with taxes and i m on board with prescription drug prices. do you think indeed if manchin were willing to narrow things down and leader schumer and speaker pelosi could narrow down just a prescription drug bill you would support that and that would pass? it exemplifies that democrats are united that medicare should be able to negotiate drug prices and help
brighton and perhaps others. what is that doing to mitch mcconnell s hopes up being the majority leader in the new congress? i think you just have to look at his behavior. right now he seems like he is upset about the possibility of the democrats passed in this prescription drug bill you discussed earlier in the show. and also the competitiveness bill. think the democrats clearly want to say we are doing something we can get things done it mitch mcconnell tactic over the years has been to stall, to obstruct. he is employing that tactic now at the risk of looking hypocritical because he support these build the past. so the question becomes, what does he think? and i think it is about just what you said, mike, which is that he is worried now that looks better for the democrats with weak republican nominees running for the senate seats. you know, the numbers in georgia have shifted recently with the