neil: we want to take you to paris, france, right now. protests continuing there. the has been almost a daily event, nothing as severe as this, unless, of course, you re counting last week at this very time during this very show. the big to-do has to do with a pension reform plan proposed by president emmanuel macron that calls for taking 45 different pensions and bringing them all into one and raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, but phasing that in over a number of years, i believe about seven years. but parisians, most french workers in general, particularly getting those pensionss now, not at all a fan of this measure and are saying don t touch a thing. of course, macron is dealing with the same realities we are in this country, that there s more money going out for these pensions than is coming in to support these pensions. this, of course, on the heels of president biden this past week proposing a budget that calls for shoring up medicare at least for the next i but years al
president joe biden will be in illinois with a message on lowering prescription prices and shoring up medicare. and then he ll head to pennsylvania. the president sounded optimistic. here he is. i know you always ask me how are we doing. we re going to win this time around, i think. i feel really good about our chances. now, biden isn t the only political star hitting the campaign trail this week. in the hours ahead, he will rally with former president barack obama in pennsylvania for the democrats senate nominee, and later donald trump will hold his own event for the state s republican nominee. and over the next few days we ll see more rallies from florida to illinois where vice president kamala harris is also society to speak. according to forecasting models from 538 and the economists, the senate races in georgia, nevada, and pennsylvania, they re so close they re considered s
are interested in but for a limited time frame so the extended child tax credit, for example, extended for only a year the affordable care act extended in the essentially the subsidies or assistance for that, extended to 2025 prek for 6 years and not permanent. the strategy being, okay, if the programs prove popular with voters then it s going to be very difficult future congress not to continue to fund them. eric: yeah, the administration has been touting the plan, talking about medicare, how it helps with child tax credits. if you re taking care of an elderly parent, for example, that gives you credit. especially trying to sure up medicare but what you re saying that some of these, even though it s in the bill, the way they get away to bring it down is by shortening the length of time that these are part of the law. yeah, that s right. you ve seen this before in legislation. you know, prek, universal prek
progressive democrats? well,bret, progressives are demanding a assurances from moderates kyrsten sinema and joe manchin in the senate they will vote for the social spending bill. there is also distrust between the house and senate. that s why liberals are forcing leaders to do the infrastructure bill and the social spending bill in tandem. both president biden and house speaker nancy pelosi failed to close the deal. what s your response when you hear that sort of dissension in your caucus about where you stand when you present a very positive picks of where you are. i have respect for all of our members in the full spectrum of the big tent that is our democratic party. everybody has the chance to say what they wish. mad because they believe moderates prevailed reducing the overall cost of the bill. plus, they nixed family leave and beefed up medicare. liberals are flexing their muscles. they are coming into their power in terms of understanding just how much power they we wou
health insurance in this country. you re going to kick more than 150 million people off their private health insurance that they get through their employer, and rip up medicare as we know it. again, he has gone so far left that you know how the likes of elizabeth warren going even further left and saying, i m in favor of confiscating wealth in this country to pay for, in part, child care for all! anybody i joked in the tease that somebody that rhymes with smiden is going to come in and be a moderate. joe biden could come in talking about president obama, come in and say, i m for fixing obamacare. lisa: i don t think you can say that bernie sanders is outside the mainstream of the democratic party anymore. look at the most recent poll of fox news, shutting the 43% of the democrats have a positive view of socialism. gallup found lester in the polling that in the first ever, more democrats have a positive view of socialism than