thanks for having me. it is sandra: bringing chad pergram now, because we just heard from joe manchin at the top of the hour who spoke for five or 10 minutes or so and need to analyze this so it is a fiscally sound bill, accusing his party of gimmicks, chad, what does that tell us of where they may be in getting something done? it makes it very hard for the house of representatives to move the reconciliation spending package this week, there was a hope of the weekend they might move it early as tuesday than we were hearing wednesday, and if joe manchin is not a board that is significant. they don t need his vote to pass something in the house of their representatives, but a lot of people will be looking for him to sign off, the indication that the progressive caucus agreed to everything, but the fact that the bill is not finalized and there is talk of trying to put in on paid family leave, provisions on medicines under medicare, still dealing with immigration policy and this was
this never happens. that s the win. this country does not need any of this build back better reconciliation spending at all. people are talking about $1.5 trillion from joe manchin in his letter that he sent over the summer as some paltry amount. brian riedel at the manhattan institute went through the numbers based on everything that joe manchin has voted for this year, it s actually $5 trillion in spending. 1.5 trillion was the last tax cut that we passed. and if you go through joe biden s idea that the left hates so much, it s raising corporate taxes, raising the top rate back to about 40%. raising capital gains tax rates and that destroys the economy. it doesn t help it grow. it hurts small businesses that are struggling mightily to recover from the pandemic. just one more thing, bernie sanders in that tweet two senators cannot be allowed to defeat what 48 senators and 210
this never happens. that s the win. this country does not need any of this build back better reconciliation spending at all. people are talking about $1.5 trillion from joe manchin in his letter that he sent over the summer as some paltry amount. brian riedel at the manhattan institute went through the numbers based on everything that joe manchin has voted for this year, it s actually $5 trillion in spending. 1.5 trillion was the last tax cut that we passed. and if you go through joe biden s idea that the left hates so much, it s raising corporate taxes, raising the top rate back to about 40%. raising capital gains tax rates and that destroys the economy. it doesn t help it grow. it hurts small businesses that are struggling mightily to recover from the pandemic. just one more thing, bernie sanders in that tweet two senators cannot be allowed to defeat what 48 senators and 210
i wish we could get rid of it. you know, both sides nobody wants to face the reality that there is no way to pay for any of this. inflation is rearing its head. let s see where we are by fall. do the house democrats have the votes for $3 trillion in reconciliation spending? right now they do not. nancy pelosi has lost at tleeft a vote from a moderate blue dog, and she can t afford to lose more than two votes, so this is a very, very fragile situation for democrats. they re trying to also get senator manchin to agree with senator bernie sanders, which is going to be a feat in the senate here, but i will go back to something josh said because i m a south florida native myself. with family searching the rubble right now, there s something to be said about 156 to even 200 souls that may possibly go missing at the end of this. right now the number is at 156, but it s really, really scary