if the full time is run out. if you extended it permanently and that we haven t even spoken about. this is a recipe for economic crisis. none of us should ever misrepresent to the american people what the real cost of legislation is. while i ve worked hard to fainda path to compromise, it is obvious compromise is not good enough for my colleagues in congress. it is all or nothing. and their position doesn t seem to change unless we agree to everything. enough is enough. it s time our elected leaders in washington, all of us, stop playing games with the needs of the american people and holding a critical infrastructure bill hostage. while there is opportunity in the reconciliation bill that we could all agree on. and we ve been talking about this for months. again, to be clear, i will not support the reconciliation legislation without knowing how the bill will impact our debt and our economy and our country and we won t know that until we work through the text. for the sake of our count
the same way that helped gavin newsom in the final weeks of california. but california is not virginia. this is a state that is trended blue. but ultimately it is youngkin that i think has seized on what is most i think politically salient issue of the time and hammered that home and mcauliffe for a long time, he i think i ve heard from democrats they waited too long to respond after that debate moment and i think that could end up being maybe the most pivotal moment of the campaign. john, after hearing what he just heard from joe manchin on how far democrats, the factions are apart from passing this legislation, terry mcauliffe has blamed i lot of the frustration within the democratic party in virginia on that in-fighting. considering the polling we just saw, is there any indication that that is why potentially the race narrowed or is that just blame shifting? i suspect it is more blame shifting than anything else. yes, washington looks to be a mess right now and that is
conversations, i think, to try to prompt them to really understand why don t you want to grow our economy? and when you put it that way i think the answer often is hmm, hmm i m not sure, and that s exactly where they should be, thinking about it. exactly right. an answer like i m not sure is an awful lot better than no, which is the thing you don t want to hear in those conversations. it s still alive as long as they re not sure. congresswoman katie porter, thank you very much for joining us once again tonight. thank you. coming up, the senate parliamentarian has correctly advised senate democrats including major changes in immigration law would be a violation of the rules of reconciliation legislation. the senate parliamentarian is completely correct in her interpretation of the senate rules as she always is. the parliamentarian is not the problem. the rules of the senate are the problem. that s next. the problem. that s next.
questions and other things. but for now i think the big, big question is everything seems to be at a point of a turning point. can they get 50 votes, can manchin go along with, can they find a plan that manchin and sinema, can they find a plan that will satisfy those two and may put it on a bipartisan basis to get the whole thing through? that reconciliation legislation only needs 50. so if all 50 democrats vote in favor of it, it will certainly pass the senate, and presumably have enough votes in the house. but we shall see. kaitlan, the president, as you know, he faced sharp criticism from the left for trying to reach across the aisle. he faced ridicule from former president trump and the right-wing media painted him as an old man blundering not knowing what he s doing. but clearly he is delivering at least right now.
reconciliation legislation. the underpinning document. and we re moving forward to get health insurance where it s affordable and available to create more choices in the marketplace and to do the biggest entitlement reform since bill clinton signed welfare reform into law. so these are big measures moving forward. we ve certainly met the test of the president and secretary price who believed this is repeal and reform. we will work with them but we need them to board to make this happen. i might add, too, this is obamacare gone. this is the first and most important step to giving relief to americans from this terrible law, and to begin the replacement principles of restoring state control and restoring the free market that conservatives, moderates, all republicans have built consensus around. dr. price s own legislation last year, which we embraced in our republican plan had an 84 co-sponsors, including members