and makes women second class citizens in this country. rosa, thank you so much for joining us today and for those wise words. thank you. we ll continue the infrastructure conversation with james clyburn. is will wiggle room with the multi trillion dollars spending bill? we ll ask him. no coincidence each bill looks and sounds similar. i ll explain after a quick break. [tv announcer] come on down to our appliance superstore where we ve got the best deals on refrigerators, microwaves, gas ranges and grills. and if you re looking for. alice loves the scent of gain so much, she wished there was a way whto make it last longer.deals on refrigerators, microwaves, say hello to your fairy godmother alice and long-lasting gain scent beads. try spring daydream, now part of our irresistible scent collection.
legislation, whether it s sb 8, the abortion bill or the critical race theory bill that was bogus, more and more texans are going against what the republican party stands for here in the state and i think they will see that in the 2022 elections. so ari, what does it say about republican lawmakers that are taking this bill and introducing it, something that caught my attention that was reported by the new york times was that the state republican lawmaker admitted that he had not read the bill and this is how we got into that rabbit hole if he didn t read the bill, who created it? what does it say to lawmakers they are not paying attention to something so fundamental to our right in the voting booth? what it says is that the lawmakers, the republican lawmakers are lying how this is all going down. they re saying they re responding to the needs and the worries of their constituents, what they re really doing is
their $3.5 trillion package that would cover clean energy to the child tax credit. they are aiming to have all committees approve their portions of the infrastructure legislation by this wednesday. however, challenges still loom large in order for the bill to reach the president biden s desk and be signed into law. it will need the support of the house and all senate democrats. you heard that right. considering how vocal west virginia senator jim manchin has been about his opposition toward the overall price tag of the package, party unity is not necessarily a given. although the house ways and means committee has yet to release the finalized text outlining how the budget reconciliation bill would be paid for, we are getting a clear look at what portion of the package includes. this coming tuesday the committee is set to review a new section of the bill that would extend the expanded child tax credit which has already helped
you know why. kids get sick. elderly parents need help. workers need assistance. you and i get sick. spouses are ill. they need family around them to care for them at that time, but the bills need to get paid, and what the paid family medical leave bill will do is to say that you can care for those that you love and you don t have to lose your job, you don t have to lose your wages and you don t have to worry about being evicted or being able to pay a mortgage. it s historic. we need to move forward if the same way and it s historic is a child tax credit, which we also need to make permanent. we ve found so far that the child tax credit is lifting families out of poverty, kids out of poverty and already the hunger numbers kids being hungry. those numbers are going down.
heritage foundation. here is how it works. the heritage foundation writes the policy and the heritage foundation action fund is sent out like a door to door salesperson selling the legislation to state legislators, a bill in a box. don t just take my word for it. mother jones has receipts. earlier this year it report in a private meeting with big money donors and a group boasted her outfit crafted the new voter suppression laws in georgia and was doing the same thing with similar bills for republican state legislators across the country. in some cases, quote, we actually draft the bill for them she said or we have seminole on our behalf that gives legislation so it feels grass roots from the bottom up. they funded the insurrection on january 6th to show doubt in the electoral system. right after the rioters, cnbc