the entire story. sandra: peter doocy live at the white house has more. missing context they allude to is when the president talks today about reducing the deficit over the course of the last year, he doesn t mention that if the build back better plan would have passed the deficit would have actually grown, so he basically got bailed out by a legislative shortcoming. this happens as the midterms inch closer and today the battle for congress went right on through the roosevelt room. as president biden talked economy and he tried out this new line about republicans. let me tell you about this ultra maga agenda, it s extreme as most maga things are. it will actually raise taxes on 75 million american families. the over 95% of whom make less than $100,000 a year. peter: the man in charge of
was saying today that basically they can make this argument. they can try to reduce the national deficit, and he believes that is going to help address those inflationary pressures, which of course, victor, we know have been building for months but the president today largely attributing to the war in ukraine, driving up gas prices, as well as grocery prices. the president said this is going to be a way, the plan going forward is going to look like, and how that s going to affect americans, and pushing back on criticism he s getting from republicans. all the talk about the deficit from my republican friends, i love it. i reduced it $350 billion in my first year in office. and we re on track to reduce it by the end of september by another $1,500,000,000,000. the largest drop ever. i don t want to hear republicans talk about deficits and their ultra maga agenda. i want to hear about fairness. i want to hear about decency.
today s republican party is offering and if they hadn t put this in print, you d think i was making it up. senator rick scott of florida, the united states senator, leading the republican national senate campaign committee released what he calls the ultra maga agenda, it s a maga agenda all right. let me tell you about this ultra maga agenda, it s extreme as most maga things are. it will actually raise taxes on 75 million american families, over 95% of whom make less than $100,000 a year. among the hardest hit? working families, kids with folks. imagine if you re a family of four and don t make enough money to have federal taxes, because you don t make enough money to pay. you pay all your taxes and don t make enough. and under this new plan, this tax plan, the ultra maga agenda, while big corporations and billionaires are going to pay