i do remember, alisyn, 2010 and the affordable care act, and there were those who said if you cannot get a public option as part of this bill, don t do anything. let it die, and i ve met so many people between then and now who were helped by that, who got coverage, whose lives were saved because of the bill that was passed, and i would have hated to tell them, hey, we could have helped you, but we couldn t get everything, so we did nothing. i can t believe that the democratic members, progressive or moderate, want to go to the voters in 2022 and say, hey, we could have had the biggest infrastructure bill in history. we could have had a really historic reconciliation bill filled with education and health care and climate components that would have been a real step forward, but it wasn t everything we wanted, so we
programs. it wasn t everything that the president proposed. there are members with large ideological differences across that committee, and they re able to come together and work on a package there. and you know, the question about where this goes forward, a lot of the focus needs to shift and is shifting in these conversations away from this top line. the idea of $3.5 trillion in spending is in and of itself wrong. there s never been a bill that has been $3.5 trillion in spending. this is about tax cuts, this is about investments in the country, and most importantly everything we re talking about is going to be fully paid for. you know, traditionally when we talk about pieces of legislation, you talk about the net cost of those pieces of legislation. that certainly was true with respect to the trump tax cut. even as you all were talking about the trump tax cut, you were talking about $1.5 trillion. you didn t talk about the $6 trillion in growth cuts. what is this bill going to accomp
campaign promises he made on the campaign trail which was to rebuild the military. barack obama dismantled what we had. the number one job of the federal government is to protect the american people. they were rebuilding and fixing old broken down equipment under obama. this gives the largest pay raise to our troops who well deserve that for the first time in 10 years. and the wall as you mentioned. it wasn t everything we wanted. but there are political realities that exist in this town. we have to have 60 votes to pass a funding bill in the senate. the republicans don t have that. the president said i want to rebuild the military. the democrats said we ll hold the military hostage. he cool a you want for the military we insist on a dollar or dollar exchange for our pet projects here at home. the president didn t want to do it but the president did it
campaign promises he made on the campaign trail which was to rebuild the military. barack obama dismantled what we had. the number one job of the federal government is to protect the american people. they were rebuilding and fixing old broken down equipment under obama. this gives the largest pay raise to our troops who well deserve that for the first time in 10 years. and the wall as you mentioned. it wasn t everything we wanted. but there are political realities that exist in this town. we have to have 60 votes to pass a funding bill in the senate. the republicans don t have that. the president said i want to rebuild the military. the democrats said we ll hold the military hostage. he cool a you want for the military we insist on a dollar or dollar exchange for our pet projects here at home. the president didn t want to do
campaign promises he made on the campaign trail which was to rebuild the military. barack obama dismantled what we had. the number one job of the federal government is to protect the american people. they were rebuilding and fixing old broken down equipment under obama. this gives the largest pay raise to our troops who well deserve that for the first time in 10 years. and the wall as you mentioned. it wasn t everything we wanted. but there are political realities that exist in this town. we have to have 60 votes to pass a funding bill in the senate. the republicans don t have that. the president said i want to rebuild the military. the democrats said we ll hold the military hostage. he cool a you want for the military we insist on a dollar or dollar exchange for our pet projects here at home. the president didn t want to do