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Give you the last question. i have black voters asking me more and more about how or if officially historically black colleges will benefit from the president s infrastructure plan to the extent that he promised. i know that last month, some of your congressional black caucus members were already threatening to withhold their support for the president s overall infrastructure bill over hbcu funding concerns. and the $45 billion in addition to funding in the president s reconciliation budget has gone down to $2 billion. it s a casualty of products. and still $2 billion in new funding, but it s still a number i ve had to explain on the street and on my daily radio show all week. explain to us, give us your response, congressman. well, thank you very much again, reverend. and allow me to say quickly, ....
$3.5 trillion price tag at an oval office meeting on wednesday this week. but it is important to remember, manchin isn t the only one with power here. on friday, congressional progressive caucus chair, pramila jayapal said more than half of her 96-member caucus has privately told her they are willing to block the bipartisan bill if the reconciliation budget fails. joining me now to discuss this, a member of the house progressive caucus, california congressman ro khanna. congressman, thanks so much for joining us this evening. let me start by sharing with you what senator tim kaine wrote in a new op-ed that shared his experience of january the 6th puts it talking about january 6th saying it puts a unique responsibility on our shoulders to support and defend this democracy. he says that only by by passing excuse me by passing comprehensive voting rights legislation can congress live up to that responsibility. and so, obviously, we know you do not have those ten republicans. and y ....
Package. access reported that president biden failed to persuade senator manchin to agree to the $3.5 trillion price tag at an oval office meeting on wednesday this week. but it is important to remember, manchin isn t the only one with power here. on friday, congressional progressive caucus chair, pramila jayapal said more than half of her 96-member caucus has privately told her they are willing to block the bipartisan bill if the reconciliation budget fails. joining me now to discuss this, a member of the house progressive caucus, california congressman ro khanna. congressman, thanks so much for joining us this evening. let me start by sharing with you what senator tim kaine wrote in a new op-ed that shared his experience of january the 6th puts it talking about january 6th saying it puts a unique responsibility on our shoulders to support and defend this democracy. he says that only by by passing excuse me by passing comprehensive voting rights legislation can congress live u ....
Caucus chair, pramila jayapal told politico that half of her 96 million are prepared to block the bipartisan bill if the reconciliation budget fails. so with all of those moving parts, and there are a lot of moving parts, you can see why it will be a busy two weeks that could ultimately reshape the role of government. joining me now, sahil kapur, nbc news national political reporter. juanita toliver, democratic strategist, elise jordan, time magazine contributor and former aid to george w. bush white house. she is also an msnbc political analyst. all right, sahil, you have been watching this very closely. tell me where it goes from here. alicia, they have a lot of work to do and not a lot of time to do it. they have to resolve a host of differences between centrist democrats and progressives in just the next seven or eight days, before that september 27th deadline. speaker pelosi has promised centrist democrats that the infrastructure bill that s passed the senate will get a vote i ....
Zero carbon pollution by 2050, and in that reconciliation budget, there is a very significant, two very significant pieces of legislation. one is called the clean energy payment plan and that would incentivize utilities to build out clean electricity on the grid so you can get to that 100% goal by 2035 or 80% by 2030. the second piece is to incentivize the private sector to do the buildouts. extending tax credits for clean energy, clean defined broadly so that nuclear, geothermal, obviously wind, solar, hydro power can be included. the bottom line is the reason why we are seeing these extreme weather events is because we are putting carbon pollution into the air. and that is warming the oceans. that is causing climate change. so we have to do our part to reduce that, and then we can go to the rest of the world with ....