comfortable place, but there have been some since then. 44% for the president s approval rating, 50% disapprove. that s a kick in the butt to try to get things done. the president saying, look, we re not going to be able to pay for free community college for two years. we ll have to put our clean electricity plan with something else. paid family leave, the child tax credit, furnding for home care. it looks like they ll have a modest but still a significant si savings plan. they hoped they could potentially make the tax credit permanent. that s been a long desire for speaker pelosi. we re told about a year. it will come due to be renewed a little after the 2022 election. democrats bet is even if we re
but actually he has been quietly eating people this whole time. and by eating people, i mean he has been methodically purging the republican party of anyone who voted for his impeachment or doesn t agree that he is the rightful leader of the seven kingdoms. so? i don t disagree with bill maher on that. some of the things that came out of his mouth in that show were wrong. in this point, he was correct. i have a lot of respect for charlie dent. who he was in congress is who he is on cnn. you can t say that about everyone. this is where we diverge. he actually cared about the deficit then and thinks that we need to rooein spending. i think it will be offset by the improvement when we get that money directly in their pockets, doing things like making the childhood tax credit permanent. and so child income tax credit
political thought and ideology. he s someone who actually cared about the deficit then and thinks we need to rein in spending. i m saying this spending that we re trying to do in build back better is necessary because i think it would be offset by the improvement, the dollar spent in people s lives when we get that money directly in their pockets, doing things like making the childhood tax credit permanent. and so i think that these things are necessary, right? so that is a legitimate debate that we can have. but i do think that there is a danger, don, and i hope charlie is listening as well. the danger is by not doing anything on these justice issues, by not doing anything on these issues that matter, you risk not only 2022, but there is a large swath of people who you may argue were not the independent voters or real americans or whatever, but they re the ones that pushed joe biden over the hump, and they won t be coming back because we haven t done anything for them. and they would
package. if it is not $3.5 trillion, it is going to be under that. so what comes out? is it home health care? is it exactly. dental and vision benefits for seniors? now moderates have to make that argument. so we are going to see this continue to play out in the weeks ahead and probably a lot more of this from president biden. he is walking a tight rope, not trying to offend any part of his caucus. it s true. i thought another really telling part of that press conference was about the fact that all of the policies that he wants, the new policies, the new new deal that effectively he wants in place, they re his policies. god love him, not bernie sanders. they are his policies. things like paid family leave. things like making the child tax credit permanent. and others that, you know, used to be considered quote, unquote, progressive ideas. they are the full makeup of the biden agenda.
we need to make the child tax credit permanent. we need to make sure that medicaid is expanded and in the other 11 states that have not yet done that. we need to make community college free for the first two years. these are the things that will build our nation back. these are the things that our constituents are asking for and i believe we ll deliver. just turning to the women s health protection act, something that a lot of people are focused and has huge ramifications. now that it s passed in the house what exactly is the plan to get it through the senate? could it end up being just symbolic? i m hopeful that we will be able to get through it the senate. there s more bipartisan support of women s reproductive freedom in the senate, two, at least two republican women recognize that