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Procedural tactic. the mother and girlfriend of the late capitol police officer brian sicknick met with several republican senators today to try to persuade them to approve the creation of the special commission. president biden says it should be a no-brainer but republicans disagree. i think this largely has a heavy political overtone and that s why i don t think you are going to see much support on the republican side of the fence. most of this should be put on whatever the fbi comes out with. i can t imagine anyone voting against the establishing a commission on the greatest assault since the civil war on the capitol. but at any rate bret: the president making that comment at an ice cream stop following his speech in cleveland. we have new information tonight on how one suburban washington school district is teaching critical race theory, an exploration of how race has shaped public society to its students. many parents are outraged by ....
what we are looking at today is $928 billion package over 8 years. it sticks to the core infrastructure features that we talked to initially. i haven t had a chance yet to go over the detail of the counter offer made by capito. we are going to meet some time next week and we will see if we can move that. we re going to keep talking. i understand the president is willing to keep talking. and we think actually the president is a good deal more reasonable than some of the people surrounding him. bret: well, that is a talking point from republicans who met with the president as this negotiation is ongoing on the infrastructure legislation that they hear good things from president biden but perhaps his staff is not where president biden is or there is some gap there meantime the economy seems to be improving. indications are that it s almost super charged as far as people s ....
Feeling about the economy right now optimistic, 51% in our latest polls. asked the biden administration s increase in government spending is it too much? 47% say it is. about right? 33%. threat to the stability of the country when asked about socialism, now, 49%a major deal. just some of the indications there. mara, we re back with the panel. mara, what s your take on the negotiations here and the president s pitch today in cleveland? yeah. i think that the negotiations are a lot of kabuki theater. i think both sides have an interest, a political interest in showing voters that they tried to be bipartisan because that s what voters like. on the other hand, if you look at these two offers, they are not apples and apples, the president wants $1.7 trillion of new spending, he has come down from 2.2 trillion. the republicans now say they re ....
At 928 billion, most of that, the vast majority of that is re-purposed covid relief funds or money that s already been appropriated. and they haven t agreed on the pay fors. the republicans say don t change the 2017 tax cut bill, and democrats in the white house say we want to raise taxes on corporations and people over $400,000 to pay for this. so i think there is still really really far apart but, yes, i think joe biden sincerely would like an infrastructure deal that s bipartisan. i just don t know if they are going to be able to get there. bret: what about that talking point part of the kabuki theater as mara describes ben republicans like talking to president biden but not sure his staff wants him to be where he is. mara is correct that this is kabuki theater. one thing we shouldn t pass by in this is that, you know, the reports are that joe biden s budget, that his proposal includes the expected sun setting of those trump tax cuts, not just for high earning ....
Americans but for low and middle income americans as well. it includes an expectation of the highest debt to g.d.p. ratio we have ever seen in u.s. history. this is not a plan that is in any way approachable in terms of a bipartisan deal to be cut. they are just too far apart. one of the other aspects of this, obviously, is the redefinition of infrastructure under the biden administration, which now apparently includes all manner of social programs within blue state budgets and the like. and that s something that republicans are never going to be willing to accept. unfortunately, i do think that this is a situation where a president biden, who was surrounded by different people or perhaps at a different democratic coalition to work with would be willing to come to the table with republicans but he is really standing alone in this regard and so because of that, i don t think we really have an option when it comes to any kind of ultimate bipartisan deal. bret: mara, we are talking big ....