320 free community college and prepare. here is a question the national debt right now is 31 point 46 trillion dollars how can we have for this can t this add to the national debt jonathan, thank you for this remember, budgetary abou values this president says that all the time it s not just about numbers. it s about what you value an who are you for. this president has made clea with this budget that he is fo working families and the middl crass. that is in stark contrast with some of our friends on the other side of the aisle wh want to continue to give tax giveaways to the wealthiest in this country this president wants to invest in the american people you talked about som proposals. paid leave is a good example that we think we must invest i this country in order to gro the economy. he also believes that we hav to do this fiscall responsibly. that is why this president has
will not even begin to discuss cutting benefits his budget doubles down on that and medicare we have proposals that would extend the life the house freedom caucu announced on thursday or frida how they want to hold the debt ceiling hostage. they want to do that b demanding cuts to climat change funding eliminating the 400 billio dollar student aid relie program among other things is that a nonstarter for the white house? it was great reading. they put out a proposal, i applaud them for putting out a proposal of standing behind it the american people should kno what the proposal would mean not just cuts to important programs that support th middle class in this country like childcare, like head star like food assistance but the would also go after a national defense in a complex globa environment. no one is spared
democrats leverage i have seen the show befor back when republicans ran th house 2016, 2017, they als tended to have a tough time to get to 18 to pass the budget that gave house democrats in the minority a lot of leverage combine that with o, by the, way the president is a stron democrat and democrats control the senate i completel disagree with the idea that th biden budget is t away i think many of the things tha are in there you actually se in the final product the one factor that is at work now that wasn t and 201 or 2017 when republicans wer in charge of the house, th house speaker is a hostage you have the house freedom caucus that says you are not getting any of our votes he cannot afford to lose mor than five votes. they ve already said you canno raise the debt ceiling wit democratic votes i asked a question, again,
one in the works and do you know if the speaker and the president have eve talked about scheduling meeting to talk about thei respective budget plans? the answer on the budget is kind of this, well, what w always see around the budget each year in congress, right the president proposes it, congress disposes it as for what mccarthy and the president are trying to do here, i mean, biden has been sayin all along, you know, mccarth will meet with you if you pu out your own budget. the question for republicans i whether they can actually unit themselves on a budget that al of them can agree on and try t pass through the house, if i comes to that. like, think about it, there is 18 republicans from district that biden won they re not gonna want to vote for big spending cuts an hard-line republicans won. how you make everyone in the party happy? that remains to be seen. here s what s interesting about what you just said, yo have those 18 biden swin district republicans, where their budget
doing it since he got into office i plan in his budget that woul reduce the deficit even more by three trillion dollars. all while still investing in the american people. childcare proposals, paid leav proposals. you know how you do that you ask the wealthiest in this country to begin to pay thei fair share is it right, the president doesn t think it is, tha billionaires and hundreds of millionaires pay less in tax rate than teachers and firefighters do in thi country. one of those billionaires being rihanna. somewhere between seven and 35 and 927 billion in the country that is a lot of money you could reagan the president s plan is very vocal on shoring up medicare raising taxes on america earners making more than $400,000 a year. where the budget is completely silent on s social security.