those eight years actually went down 10 billion. so i know we can find savings and get our economy stronger. after when republicans were in majority, we passed that tax package. revenue into the government has never been higher. it s the highest revenue we ve ever seen in. so it s not a revenue problem, it s a spending problem. a couple interesting things happened on the floor right now. if you combine the number of democrats who voted no and voted president, there s a hundred democrats that won t stand up against socialism. that s a real concern to me in america today. it s not just that wasn t a college vote on a college campus. that was a vote in the u.s. congress that 100 democrats couldn t say socialism was wrong. that s a scary point of view. but you also understand why we re in a spending problem that they are when they were in the majority. so let me stop there and take any questions you may have. the white house said that the president s open to talking
or borrowing capacity. we have to deal with that. we re determined to deal with that. we hope the president and the senate will join us. neil: i understand, sir. what would protect? we re told the pressurery secretary is lining up payments to medicare recipients, soldiers and the like, those that are due interest on our debt. that would with a quick default if we didn t pay them. anything else that we re missing to get us through this? we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. we have $5 trillion in revenue coming in. we just got to put everything on the table from a spending standpoint. if we reach the debt limit, all it does is force to us prioritize our spending to cut neil: and congressman, what would you priorize. what you re doing to avoid that. everything should be on the
especially in blue collar workers benefit the most. so look, washington does not have a revenue problem. it has a big spending problem. it will get worse if any part of this build back better get through. neil: thanks, congressman. i always like to put you in a corner where you re criticizing somebody in the party or about the tax cuts. but you handle that. kevin brady, he laid the blueprint for that tax cut. a lot of people as he properly said had a role in it. the blueprint, the tax cuts that became law, got the economy booming and the markets booming and record number of jobs, that all started him working at it. it started there, built from there. much more after this. this is art inspired by real stories of bipolar depression. i just couldn t find my way out of it. the lows of bipolar depression can take you to a dark place. latuda could make a real difference
hangs together. if it was, the social security lock box, if we opened it, it would be full of cobb webs i suspect. so the clock is ticking for the democrats. the beginning of the last week, we heard by the end of the week, beginning of this week, krysten sinema has drawn a line in the sand. what else could that go after? well, they could go back to things that have been field tested before. if you look at the ways and means bill, that looks like the obama green book. those are all ideas that i think democrats have confidence in, they would know how to implement them. they just don t have political support. they have run into a dead end on the corporate tax, on the top rate for individuals and a variety of other things that i have a revenue problem. if you think about how this is developing, they re making it cheaper by just shortening the numbers of years that these programs exist. that s the same thing saying they re going to front load this spending. if they can t come up with
experiencing this year will continue into next year. look, part of what s happening isn t just the supply side, it s the demand side many demand is off the charts. reporter: the port of los angeles is working around the clock to get cargo ships in and products off boats. the executive director of the port of long beach says the way sees it there will be a backlog of shipping until mid next year. in order to remain competitive and make sure we address this issue not only on a global level but here, at a local level, we have to up our game in terms of not only how we move containers, but in terms of the hours that we operate. 24/7. reporter: lawmakers have been you aattempting to slow down increasing inflation. republicans say the leading cause of prices you see at the store is federal spending. americans know that when washington spends too much money, that it drives inflation. washington doesn t have a revenue problem. it has a spending problem. reporter: democrats, however,