holdout on the legislation despite months of talks and a sense of optimism from mr. biden just last week. his decision has sparked outrage from the white house and other democrats. reporter: the senate and house are on recess for the holiday but the reaction was fast and furious, democrats moderates as well as progressives angry, frustrated, disappointed, all tweeting out statements over the weekend regarding this bombshell announcement that was made. congresswoman barbara lee of california tweeting that she was infuriated and disappointed that those who would be losing out would be the care givers and she said primarily black and brown women, children, poor, homeless, not to mention the climate. many provisions to protect the climate also in that bill. at the same time we heard from republicans almost uniformly senator john cornyn describing it as an early christmas gift
moderate. what is moderate about opposing action on climate change or child care? if they re moderates, does that make someone like yourself an extremist? not at all. that is the thing. exactly. these labels are really misleading. it is the progressives if you want to call us that. the ones who really are on the page with the american people. the american people want all of the things in joe biden s agenda and that is where we are. so i would say this is a time for the moderates, so-called moderates, to get real and to do those things that will actually help our american people. rather than the republicans are loving all of this. yes. since when do the democrats sit back and give the republicans the outcomes they re going for? by the way, in all of this discussion, the republicans take absolutely no responsibility. they are sitting on their hands acting as though oh, yeah government shutdown? sure. why not?
who s up? who s down? sinema and manchin versus biden and pelosi. but it is important to realize, that s not really what matters in the end. because the main story here that should bother all of us is that the american people are suffering for no good reason. they ve been gas lighted. why is it that the u.s. is the only industrialized country that cannot guarantee health care or child care or family leave for its citizens? now you have even top democrats in congress supposedly centrist, moderates, realists, saying sorry, america. you can t have what everyone else has. i m sorry but they re lying to you. we can afford $3.5 trillion over ten years. we can afford to tax the super rich. we can afford to guarantee basic rights and living standards to the people of this country. 11 senators including bernie sanders released a statement earlier this week demanding the passage of not just part but all of the biden agenda reading in
sinema ran on reducing pharmaceutical prices and now she is objecting to that part of the bill that does that while taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in pharmaceutical money over the last few years. you mentioned in the last segment this thing of calling these democrats moderates. there is nothing moderate about them. it is just a polite way of saying they re corporate democrats. they are there to do the bidding of as you said the donors so the donor class of the elites and that is how we should refer to them. they are corporate democrats. and, yes. they stand a chance of ruining everything. but like the wonderful senator from hawaii that you just had on said, she just wants to ask them, what part of this would you take out? let s take away the hearing aids from the senior citizens. no dental care for our seniors in medicare. let s get rid of that. let s get rid of child care. the thing right now that is making it so hard for parents to work right now.
that is what seems to become clear in recent days. sinema ran on reducing pharmaceutical prices and now she is objecting to that part of the bill that does that while taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in pharmaceutical money over the last few years. you mentioned in the last segment this thing of calling these democrats moderates. there is nothing moderate about them. it is just a polite way of saying they re corporate democrats. they are there to do the bidding of as you said the donors so the donor class of the elites and that is how we should refer to them. they are corporate democrats. and, yes. they stand a chance of ruining everything. but like the wonderful senator from hawaii that you just had on said, she just wants to ask them, what part of this would you take out? let s take away the hearing aids from the senior citizens. no dental care for our seniors in medicare. let s get rid of that. let s get rid of child care. the thing right now that is