were working with leader jeffries and of course it might be beneficial for republicans too. they don t want to vote for the ukraine aid package but they do want to vote for the israel package. i think, we will follow leader jeffries. we should be very thoughtful and careful. otherwise, if we save the speaker without anything to show for it, we may be contributing to our space saying, you are the ones that allowed him to continue to be speaker and now he is bringing all these terrible things to the floor about winning the election in november. let s stay on that theme about winning elections, the congressional caucus this week released a list of progressive agenda items which include a 17- dollar an hour minimum wage by 2028 capping childcare cost at 7%. families extending social media . i have heard members of the caucus say that this is
in power. manchin is coming from a state that trump won. is that really what s going on here, is the people they represent are far more conservative and they wouldn t survive this? it s that, but i can say in the case of senator manchin, it s also that it s his personal philosophy. you heard him out talking to reporters earlier today, and he was saying, look, if progressives want more progressive agenda items and policies, then they need to elect more progressives. he is being very open about it. yes, it is the fact that he represents ruby red west virginia, and it is an anomaly in some ways that he represents that state, and it s because he
the case of senator manchin, it s also that it s his personal philosophy. you heard him out talking to reporters earlier today, and he was saying, look, if prog progressives want more progressive agenda items and policies, then they need to elect more progressives. he is being very open about it. yes, it is the fact that he represents ruby red west virginia, and it is an anomaly in some ways that he represents that state, and it s because he is so well known. but it is also because he believes it. what s really interesting, anderson, is that if you look at the state of west virginia, there are so many of his constituents who could benefit from a lot of these programs yeah, that s what s so interesting. that the biden white house wants to put forward. but they also fundamentally, idealogically don t believe, a lot of them, at least the ones
bucket. it s the right thing to do. you remember that john avlon? cnn political analyst and editor in chief of the daily beast. seriously, that s the first thing i thought of yesterday when i saw this climate proposal announced was here we go. bucket yeah. poppy, i mean this has been an extraordinary fourth quarter of a presidency. traditionally fourth quarters of presidencies are considered lame duck times. that s been the stereotype that a lot of predecessors have been laden with but this president has decided to throw that idea off and seems liberated to pursue a lot of progressive agenda items he had been restrained from doing when he or his party were facing re-election. and these range from cuba to this ambitious action on climate change. the question will be as you see the heat he s taking the fight he s going to face not only the political fights but the legal