and thrilled to have been a part of it. it is not yet whether kyrsten sinema or bernie sanders are on board. are you confident you have the votes to get it through? defeat is not an option here. it s common sense, all good stuff, deficit neutral, works on inflation, puts people to work, covers folks for health care, brings down prescription prices. who would not be for that? the washington post is reporting that larry somers was key in speaking to manchin and convince him this package is nonot inflationary. can you explain to folks at home how it will not be inflationary? in this cause, some of the earlier spending a year or two ago was not paid for. this is fully paid for, offset
but that s not the record. let s look at the overall plan. we have disagreements with some of our friends. but those friends like joe manchin and larry summers agree this is paid for and will reduce the deficit by $300 billion and it s anti-inflationary and will lower prescription prices and energy for 13 million. when you look at it as a whole, it s an anti inflationary bill and there s wide support for this. neil: you are very good at economics. there s no way you can think that more government spending is going to cure inflation. i just don t think you believe that. giving medicare the ability to negotiate lower prices to save $288 billion for medicare, so you re lowering government
that gun deal that finally did get, the first time in decades but republicans are signaling, that s it, we re not doing anything more. democrats are trying to push this forward. the other thing we ve seen in polling, i m sure you have, too. aren t aware of what has passed or signaled that it s not going to make a meaningful difference. switching gears that will drive this, axios is reporting on a new found hope surrounding the west virginia senator. what does mean? leaders are coming on to the idea that there could be two possible requisition yags bills on getting something done. they want to get something done on lowering prescription prices but they listened to joe manchin s words on radio the other day, taking a step back to maybe the door hasn t closed completely. the senator said we ll have to
prescription prices and subsidies, he s not going to go along. that s what sounds like. this is something that we can agree on, right now we have a real crisis in america with the inflation situation. the rural voters institute, we ve engaged voters on this and we for the stories of people were making tough choices between the gas for the commute to work or for the child care to be able to go to work. that is something that shouldn t just be a partisan issue for talking points. that is something that from our studies people can come together and rally, republicans, democrats, american families can come together to want to tackle this problem, especially when we talk about things like look, there are factors that play on a global stage right now impacting this, for example, with the war in ukraine and what it s doing to food prices and to gas prices and how that impacts the global economy and that the fight for freedom has never stopped at american shores. in fact, in world war ii,
how do you counter that on the campaign trail? how do the democrats make the case that they deserve to stay in power in november? one of the things that i ve heard for years from people from delaware, the price of prescription drugs. those are not optional, you have to take them. family after family, from seniors to parents of infants have said to me, we have to do something on prescription prices. democrats have a plan. we are poised to present. when nori. if you plus. it was passed out of the senate a year ago by a bipartisan