To try to defeat that part of the bill. In washington, it is always so much easier to increase Spending And Cut taxes. One of the things the democrats are doing in this package is cutting taxes for a lot of people. They want to permanently expend extend the boosted Tax Credit. There are millions of families who will be getting checks, direct deposits this week for the child Tax Credit that they increase this year. That is a big deal. People will be reminded every month when they look in their account and they got hundreds of dollars bigger that this happened. It is hard to take something like that away. The democrats will say this Package Overall will be a Tax Cut for these families. It will provide all of these benefits on childcare, free community college, universal prek. There are somebody things they could say this will help your family and the people paying the bill are the corporations and the wealthy. They think that will be more politically sellable then what they were trying i
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empty chairs is a bit of an impact over one key issue within the giant bill, and that is unemployment insurance. democrat joe manchin holding out on alternative proposal. we have more on that coming up tonight. meanwhile, republican senators have been trying to do some other things that show how narrow their options are. minor delay tactics. they haven t found a clear message against the whole bill, and some of the numbers may show why. donald trump never passed 49% approval in his entire time in office, but biden s overall approval rating has now surged to 60%. that s 11 points higher than trump ever got in his whole presidency. and biden s approval for handling covid-19 is up to 70%, and that includes almost half of republicans, 44% of them. and then there is the most striking number of all, and this may explain why so much of what you re seeing tonight has an inevitable conclusion. it s at 76% of americans back the covid bill, including 59% of republicans. in that sense, b
crimes and an insurrection and where we go from here as a nation. in fact, these two stories that i just mentioned to you tonight, they re linked. how does president biden work with a party that has some of its prominent leaders lying about his lawful victory and some, and to be precise and fair not all, but some elected republicans minimizing the violence that left five dead at the capitol. how do you do negotiations over the basics when you don t have any understanding on the fundamentals? there are a lot of smart thinkers who ve studied these types of issues in different societies and a lot of progressives right now around the biden administration who say there can be no unity, no true democracy under the rule of law, unless there are facts and accountability first. keep that in mind as you see this news tonight. former president trump wants to exploit the upcoming trial as a chance to double down on the election lie that partly fed the insurrection. he wants to take on th