something else. in fact, she already has the fourth highest amount of winnings in the show s history. and at just 13 games, marked by her quick wit and response time, extreme intellect and willingness to bet big. schneider s also an aspirational figure for another reason. she s the first transgender contestant to qualify for the show s prestigious tournament of champions, a competition for the season s top players who have won at least five games in a row. during a game early in her run, schneider subtly wore a pin of the transgender flag, later tweeting that she, quote, wanted to represent that part of my identity accurately, as important, but also relatively minor. adding that she, quote, also didn t want it to seem as if she was some kind of shameful secret. he also told the washington post of her historic accomplishments saying, until someone does it, it can feel unattainable. it s one minor area of human achievement, but it still means something and it means something to see tra
it s not clear if they can get agreement on 50 votes just to pass that on their own without republican support. this thing is still very much an open question as to where we get whether any infrastructure gets to president biden s desk in the first place. so the democrats still have to get it together. and jonathan lemire, i know the president is hitting the road to sell the infrastructure plan to the american people. what more do you know about the white house strategy moving forward? biden, as we know, mika, has bet big on the idea of bipartisanship. he campaigned on it, even though he didn t have republican buy in on the covid relief bill, the white house aides pointed out how popular that was with republican voters but that was the limit. now he has gop votes on board. he s going to wisconsin tomorrow, he s going to begin to sell this white house aides tell us this is the beginning of a bunch of trips he s going to make in the coming weeks to sell
this. certainly those in the conservative media who carried his water. there are people out there willing to give him cover on no matter what issue it is. this is a case, i know we re talking about this. it seems like trump is start to go distance himself from the royal family in riyadh. but the trump administration has bet big on mbs. they have made saudi arabia the linchpin of their middle east strategy to try to come up with peace in the region and certainly iran. and it is going to be difficult for him, then, to untangle themselves. so right now in this precarious moment, the president s allies are out there doing his work trying to give him cover. and you know what else doesn t work in middle america, willie and donnie? smearing a guy who is preaching reform against saudi sheikhs who carved his body up while he was still alive. that doesn t play well in peoria or tuscaloosa. forget politics. on a purely human level, if
presidents been best on the economy? bill clinton, we haven t mentioned and i think clinton really and you re part of that moment in the 90s, where we were able to at the cold war ended, we had a lot of bills to be paid, and clinton cut deals with the republicans. by the end of his second term, we were able to have not only a balanced budget but a surplus. clinton deserves more credit than i thought history was going to give him. you look at it and it was quite an accomplishment. on economic policies presidents tend to bet big. fdr did the new deal in a big way. reagan did tax cuts in a very big way. johnson goes into the great society that 89th congress, get 20 bills, they literally change the national income of the united states over 15 years. they almost doubled family incomes. so there s these are these men tend to bet very large on their economic ideas. george w. bush bet very big on tax cuts.