it has the sweeping policies as well. i mean, that s one of the specific examples of, yeah, you re in the room but will you reach a consensus. i want to listen to some of that because you watch this play out in realtime. senator chris coons, a key ally of the president, senator from delaware and senator joe manchin, a clean energy plan, what else can we do? what s plan b? some say bring back the characteron tax. making progress. objections to this so let s do that. then this happens. the question is whether we can include a polluter fee. that s something i hope we can include and will allow us to go to glasgow, the global summit in two weeks showing ambition. are you okay with the carbon tax? no, no, we haven t talked about that. look. this is the entire first-year biden agenda, number one so it makes another key point. the president is about to be on the global stable. he wants to say my country is taking the climate situation
to export steel and cement and fertilizer into the united states. that s something i m still hopeful we can include. and would allow us to go to glasgow, the global summit on climate in two weeks showing some ambition on combatting climate here in the united states. so if you want all of those climate initiatives, and the price tag comes down, you have to say bye to something, right? that would be some of the social safety net issues. so, you know, what would get trimmed or what would get eliminated? what do you think would be acceptable? there is free community college, there is expanded medicare, there is an expansion of pell grants, the child tax credits, and so on. what could be jetsonned? i have folks who work for me who are paying as much if not more for child care as they are for their mortgages. and it is something that work