Gotten us to where we are right now. Mr. President , i do understand that many of my republican colleagues are in a bit of shock. Theyre in a bit of shock now. They are finding it hard to believe that the president and the democratic caucus are prepared to go forward in addressing the longneglected needs of working families and not just the 1 and wealthy campaign contributors. Thats not the way things usually happen around here. Usually, its the bigmoney interests, the campaign contributors, and the lobbyists who call the tunes. But not today. Today we move this country in a very different direction. Mr. President , the american people are sick and tired of growing Income And Wealth inequality in our country, where two people now own more wealth than the bottom 40 , where the top 1 owns more wealth than the bottom 92 , and where 45 of all new income has gone to the top 1 since 2009. In other words, the people on top are doing phenomenally well. Meanwhile, while the very rich have becom
Is its not 3. 5 trillion, it will lead to a wave of illegal immigration the likes of which you have never seen before. A 262 increase in the last six months. If this bill, this idea, ever becomes reality, you can double that. If this bill ever becomes reality, a Dollar Increase in gas prices are going to be the good old days. They shut down the coalfired plants without any way to replace it other than a bunch of b. S. Good luck with the heating bill. Theyre going to change your country. Its going to be more like venezuela and less like america. This idea is going to be paid for by taxing the rich is a bunch of b. S. If you took the entire wealth of the 1 , including their cars and theiR Dogs, its less than half we need to deal with the entitlement problems we already have, and youre growing exponentially the size of government. More government to pay for eventually interest rates are going to have to go up. Youre putting in motion, i think, the demise of america as we know it. Youre pu
With a final Passage Vote scheduled for 11 a. M. Eastern. The senate will then immediately turn to the democrats 3. 5 trillion dollar budget plan. Votes on that are expected throughout the day. Now live to the Senate Floor on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal and everblessed god, the alpha and omega, thank you for the gift of this day. Give us the wisdom to use it to enrich lives by service to others. Use our lawmakers to continue your momentum in our world, enabling them to become Salt And Light to this generation. As our senators strive to be productive members of the family of humanity, empower them to do your will. Supply their needs out of the bounty of your celestial riches. If they fall, may they fall forward as they trust you to remain the Author And Finisher of their faith. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in
because it puts money in pockets, it puts people in jobs, vaccines in arms, and makes sure that our kids get back into school. we re going to stay at our desks until some time over the weekend. we send this bill back to the house for a quick vote so president biden can get it next week. we are also following new developments in the january 6th capitol hill riot. disturbing, new details two months later about the chaos that ensued and the danger still facing officers. and back to normal? not so fast. cdc now delaying the release of new guidelines for those who have been vaccinated as dr. anthony fauci warns of another possible spike in the weeks ahead. a lot to get to this morning as we say good morning. it s saturday, march 6th. i m lindsey reiser. and i m kendis gibson. we re just getting started here at msnbc world headquarters in new york. our team of correspondents bright and early here standing by with latest for us. msnbc s amanda golden is following those dev
jets to the region and they will reduce staff at the american embassy in kyiv, because of quote, continued threats of significant russian military action. so let s begin with kaitlan collins. so what is the plan for the video call next hour? well this is a call that has about nine leaders on there from europe. ukraine is not on this call. we just asked the white house about that. they poipnted to other conversations the biden administration has had with them, and including tony blinkent, but this is not on this call that will happen this afternoon from the situation room and a call scheduled as we know president biden is considering sending more u.s. troops in the sense of deterrence as they wait to see what the russian president is going to do and they don t know what move the russian leader wants to take next and they are watching. there was a report over the weekend after they believe russian was trying to install a pro-russian leader in ukraine. all of that is on agenda