about and the democrats are starting to take up, literally a federal job guarantee. which has been an item that christian gillibrand and other folks have been celebrating. finally let me ask you this, rick. the other idea behind the tax cut was that everyone would get more money in their paycheck. i wonder if personally like, what s the tradeoff look like from where you re sitsing? well, when the tax cut finally rolled down to us, i got about 16, $17 more a week. and but now harley is giving me a heck of a tax cut. i won t have no income at all next year. my tax will be zero. rick pence, i m sorry what happened to you. wishing you all the best and the folks that work with you in the plant there in kansas city, missouri and darrick, hamilton. still to come, meet elliott brady, the former finance chair for the republican money who had his own hush money scandal which looked similar to trump s hush money scandal. plus tonight s thing 1, thing 2
labor union for the workers met with nancy pelosi to raise concerns about harley announcing the opening of an assembly plant in thailand. to talk more, i m joined by rick pence, a machinist at the kansas city plant and director of urban policy at new school. let me start with you, rick. when were you told that the factory you work at will be closing. on the morning of january 30th, we weren t even allowed in the front door. they had a bunch of folding chairs set up at the main hall. weren t allowed in to sit down, a few minutes later go, home. they said we re closing this plant. go home for the rest of the day and show up tomorrow and ready to work. so the announcement happened, the plant is going to stay open for a little while. a month after the big tax cut bill? about five weeks. did you think that that, the passage that have bill would generally be good for your company? we thought it would.
the company announced the purchase of up to 15 million shares of stock putting nearly $700 million back in the hands of their shareholders. then just a couple weeks ago, labor union for the workers met with nancy pelosi to raise concerns about harley announcing the opening of an assembly plant in thailand. to talk more, i m joined by rick pence, a machinist at the kansas city plant and director of urban policy at new school. let me start with you, rick. when were you told that the factory you work at will be closing. on the morning of january 30th, we weren t even allowed in the front door. they had a bunch of folding chairs set up at the main hall. weren t allowed in to sit down, a few minutes later go, home. they said we re closing this plant. go home for the rest of the day and show up tomorrow and ready to work. so the announcement happened, the plant is going to stay open for a little while.
the other idea behind the tax cut was that everyone would get more money in their paycheck. i wonder if personally like, what s the tradeoff look like from where you re sitsing? well, when the tax cut finally rolled down to us, i got about 16, $17 more a week. and but now harley is giving me a heck of a tax cut. i won t have no income at all next year. my tax will be zero. rick pence, i m sorry what happened to you. wishing you all the best and the folks that work with you in the plant there in kansas city, missouri and darrick, hamilton. still to come, meet elliott brady, the former finance chair for the republican money who had his own hush money scandal which looked similar to trump s hush money scandal. plus tonight s thing 1, thing 2 starts next. okay, so. my mom washes the dishes. .before she puts them in the dishwasher. and if they come out gross. .she washes them again.
happen, unambiguously is this statute has to be repealed. that s the first thing that has to transpire. that is admitting that the state made a terrible mistake and going to the confessional booth in front of the rest of the nation. the next thing that has to happen let me stop you there. so you say repeal. that means what governor pence offered today as a fix for you right now is not enough. absolutely it s not enough. the legislature has to take it out of governor pence s hands and admit the error that was made first and then take the law right off the books. once that s done we have to do the hard work of ensuring the world has to understand that we re welcoming intolerant and open to everybody and that s to ensure equal protections. what have you heard from your colleagues that did support this recently? there s a lot of buyers remorse.