horse trading going on in the build back better agenda. what stood out to you? to me that corporate tax issue, you know, this was always you were going to pay for it, tax the rich, raise corporate taxes a little bit, but not as high as they were before the tax cuts in 2017. invest in working families. that whole construct is up in the air now. reporter: right, and apparently dead. i mean, if you can t raise tax rates and it s a little bit unclear to me as with so much what senator sinema actually opposes. right. reporter: what her line in the sand is. i think there s a lot to this that we don t know. can they set a minimum rate for corporations? and that would raise enough money. would that not be raising taxes, even though tax rates, even though it would raise money? there is like a washington shell game going on here where you need to find money, but you can t raise tax rates. and it s not an undoable thing, but it will certainly be a
the affordable care act is unconscionable. the cultural corruption in washington like there was in alabama is unbecoming the executive branch. there s no doubt about that. that s why my focus has been on building that infrastructure, chuck that allows us to win elections up and down the ticket. while we re working to elect people from the school board to the oval office, because i think the most effective way to make this current moment in our history, a brief moment is to elect democrats up and down the ticket and that s why i m working my tail off to do that, and where my focus is and i m proud of the work we ve done in 2017. invest in almost $1 million in alabama. you know, i had a state representative on yesterday on the democratic side of patricia todd. she said something interesting about the race. 2ki6 difficulty, frankly, the party structure was broken in alabama, and that frankly you could say the national democratic party was a bit out of touch in