together with this massive, over $4 trillion tax and spend bill so it is one big package and we actively acted against it and reduced the number. that is why they ve been dragging it out for weeks because they haven t had the votes and there are no moderates, by the way, they are socialists and liberals and they worked a deal together but they are still not going to have enough votes to pass the tax increase bill. if you look at what is going on right now, first of all, there was a report by penn wharton school of business that came out today that exposes the fallacy that president biden keep saying this isn t going to cost anything. number one, it s not going to cost $1.5 trillion, it is going to cost over $4 trillion. as amnesty for millions of people. 87,000 more irs agents to snoop on your bank accounts. a natural gas tax that everyone is going to pay so it blows away the myth promised that if you make less than $400,000 he won t pay a dime in new taxes. you re going to be paying a
is loudly against it. yeah. democrats don t have the vote to pass this tax increase bill in reconciliation themselves. the truth is that more and more of the so-called moderate pro business democrats, as they call themselves back home, realize that if they vote for these tax increases, the greatest tax increases on main street businesses, farmers and workers in a generation, they know they re not coming back to congress. so speaker pelosi doesn t have the votes. i think the reconciliation is an empty threat. we need to do this in a bipartisan way that doesn t fund infrastructure on the backs of working families. charles: meantime, you ve been to the border often. now apparently former president trump is set to make his trip down there june 30th. what should he be bracing for? yeah, it will be different from the last time he was there.
who have expressed real concerns in both houses about the president, about his use of twitter, but also about his seeming inability as they see it to focus on what are the pressing issues of the day, the way bob corker put it as you know and that kind of started all of this way back when with adult daycare. do you agree with any of what bob corker has to say? i don t get in the drama aspect. i look the way it happened obamacare, we passed a bill. the senate didn t. and so who is at fault? the president wanted a repeal of obamacare. i don t think it is the white house fault on that one. and then the democrats it would be good if we had across the aisle appeal. most people want to lower taxes. the democrat progressive caucus put in a tax increase bill two weeks ago to raise taxes 10 trillion. i don t think some democrats want to go in that direction.
cutting the guts, and i mean that, cutting the guts out of health care. this is no longer a health care bill. this is a tax increase bill and a tax cut bill. tax increase for all those in the middle incomes and tax cut for those in the wealthiest brackets. you re on the house intelligence committee. congressman nunes did offer an apology for how who handled that information related to the trump campaign but what is your take on where we stand? nunes is going to have more information today. some are staying he needs to step down but jim himes didn t seem to think devin should step down. he is the person who has been working with. i would say this. i believe we have a tainted committee right now. there s no question about that. we re having people call for the committee to stand down in its investigation. i want to see the document that chairman nunes felt come pepello
mitch mcconnell, basically, had counciled his members to filibuster. this is what he had to say. he basically said this was a stunt. take a listen. we re going to have another show vote in the morning on a tax increase bill, styled as a student loan bill. my counsel to my members is, why would we want to get on a bill like that, that clearly is not going anywhere. it would be blue slipped by the house. was this a stunt? is this just an election year gimmick, knowing that it wouldn t go anywhere in the house? knowing that you re probably not going to get the votes. is this a gimmick? let s just be really clear. there are 40 million americans dealing with student loan debt. $1.2 trillion outstanding in student loan debt. this bill would have put hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars back into the pockets of millions of people across this country, and would have been a real jump-start for this economy. young people today can t buy