necessarily. onto the guardian, this staggering figure according to the i staggering figure according to the government spending watchdog public accounts committee concluding that £770 million was played with fast and loose in the awarding of covid contracts. it s an extraordinary some. it really is. contracts. it s an extraordinary some. it really is. and this is lots ofthe some. it really is. and this is lots of the covid some. it really is. and this is lots of the covid contracts some. it really is. and this is lots of the covid contracts that - some. it really is. and this is lots of the covid contracts that were l of the covid contracts that were handed of the covid contracts that were handed out, they are now starting to be looked handed out, they are now starting to be looked at by the public accounts committee, so the watchdog in parliament that overlooks the expenditure of our money. now he was they expenditure of our money. now he was they found expenditure o
person that you re going to have a planet, and that we are actually taking real action to reduce carbon emissions. there are so many things in this bill about changing how you feel when you wake up in the morning, and that is what we have to do to reach americans across the country and say government s got your back. that s what the build back better act will do. washington congresswoman pramila jayapal, the chair of the congressional progressive caucus in the midst of the final debate on this bill tonight that is due to pass. pramila jayapal just told us confidently it s going to pass tonight. the votes are there. congresswoman, i know it s going to be a late night. thank you for taking this moment. thank you, rachel. don t forget to send me my optimist in chief plaque from the rachel maddow show. it s frosting on a big cookie, but i ll send it anyway. we ll get it through. all right. much more ahead tonight as we wait for this big vote. i should tell you, all awards handed
hatched. are you saying that you believe the votes are there for sure? yes. it will pass tonight the house of representatives. and, rachel, i m so proud of the progressive movement, the progressive caucus that has been holding the line and saying that these two bills, the infrastructure bill and the build back better bill, had to go together. 85% of all of that good stuff that you covered, that is 85% of the president s agenda. that is in the build back better act. and it is transformational. ago, rachel, remember, there was no negotiated agreement. there was no framework. there was no legislative text. there was no vote on a rule, and there was certainly no vote on the actual build back better act because progressives held the line. we got all of that, and this is a phenomenal package. we will pass it through the house. we will send it to the senate. president biden has assured us that he has 51 votes in the
for 2.2 million low-income, uninsured americans. tonight the vote we cast is about history. we re going to change the lives and livelihoods for americans for generations to come. it s a late night in washington where the house is on the verge of passing the signature piece of president biden s agenda, the build back better act. and getting to this point has been quite a saga. seemingly endless negotiations over the scope of the bill and the cost of the bill, heated standoffs over the wisdom of splitting this stuff off from the smaller bipartisan physical infrastructure bill, that smaller bipartisan infrastructure bill was split off, passed by the house and senate and signed into law by president biden this week. that all happened, though, only on the condition that there would also be support for this larger spending bill that is