the short termfunding bill expires in death. and 11 republicans were helping him pass this debt extension. meanwhile as jacqui mentioned, we still don t have a top line nor the social spending bills. moderates and progresses are battling this out. we don t know what is in the plan. we don t know how much it s going to cost. nancy pelosi telling reporters, you know what? it s the media s fault for americans not understanding the president s multi-trillion dollar bill. listen. do you think you need to do a better job at messaging and going forward, how you sell this and i think you could do a better job of selling it to be frank with you. every time i come here, i go through the list. okay. we could do a better job. pelosi is urging members to focus on a few items that they
dropped down to 1.4 in 2020. this year, it s 4.2%. so significant jump up. we re seeing it priced into a lot of things that we need like gasoline, which is up dramatically. things like eggs and milk are up. some of the same contours are there. we ve had an energy crisis in the 1970s. different kind of a situation than we have today. we did have government stimulus like in 1977 under carter. we obviously seen that with president trump and march of last year with the covid bill. february with biden s covid bill. we re flooding the country with money and ultimately that will be reflected i suspect in higher prices. neil: you think about it, the last two bouts of serious inflation in the 70s with opec and the oil embargo and later on in the late 70s with jimmy
could do well rather than packing the bill with a ton of programs. the first thing to go is trimming the length to reduce the costs without undermining their impact. aoc hitting back on the idea tweeting this. we can t negotiate the reconciliation bill down to nothing and then she lays out exactly how much money she would like to see for the things that she s supporting, immigration and affordable housing as progressive senator bernie sanders who reportedly will not budge on expanding medicare. he keeps calling on senators joe manchin hand kyrsten sinema, the two must-have votes to please tell us what do you want in this bill, please just tell us. neil? neil: amazing. she s blaming you and your colleagues for not knowing what is in the package when she herself has said we don t have a finished package yet. goodness. all right, aishah. i don t know how you do this without excedrin or a lot of