when you are a republican, back in the day when you were running for office, there were things you cared about and campaigned on like fiscal responsibilities and foreign responsibilities and tax codes. these guys have given up all that. all they want to do is sign the next crt or the next taken out of context the letter from head of doj saying we are here to cooperate with law enforcement on threats. i mean they are really have hone the art of playing to the lowest common denominator in the cultural wars and they won with it. that s why josh hawley won in missouri. it was the culture war and not on the policies.
uncertain. this is all stuff sorted out and rewriting the american tax codes. no easy lift. where us nancy pelosi and all this. is that going to be enough for them to finally pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill which is a huge mess of win in of itself. will it be enough for them? it remains to be seen. speaker pelosi is going to call a vote on the bill trying to force this issue today. progressives and democrats party have been really good loyal with this. the reconciliation bill now looks to be $1.75 trillion which is way down $6 trillion from what bernie wanted and way down from the $3.5 trillion that the
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is there a plan for some of these elements that will inevitably get cut to try to move it past forward. the president has said he has two red lines here. he ll not raise taxes taxes on anybody making more than 140,000 a year. and he will make both deadlines. these investments are critical to help working families get some breathing room, making our tax codes work more fair so our wealthiest pay their fair share so we can fix our infrastructure. we re in the midst of negotiations. the president is working in great faith. we had a great meeting with the group of progressives yesterday and today with the moderates. we re converging on the solution here and we re doing it with a number of people. you said there s too much focus on manchin and sinema.
agenda is fully paid for and those are the discussions that are happening right now. manchin also writes, what i made clear to the president and democratic leaders is spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs when we can t even pay for the essential social programs like social security and medicare is the definition of fiscal insanity. your response? yeah, that s the whole point is that, for example, there were 50 corporations who made $40 billion in profit last year, who didn t pay one dime in taxes. tax fairness requires that we all pay our fair share. and senator manchin, i think, is very much in favor of reshaping the tax codes, that it is fair that we address those loopholes and inequities. so that is a discussion that is happening right now. but the president, too, wants to make sure that it is fully paid for. and that s one of the features of the build back better agenda that has huge support among the