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playing field that even with the quote, even after squandering all those even afte squandering all thos elon musk is still the second richest human being on the planet. and on that note, that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back on monday. alex will be back on tuesday, and my own show, here on msnbc, well be back on sunday night on 8 pm, but now its time for the last word with ali velshi and lawrence odonnell. >> that was a segment after my own heart. what a world, right? a guy ...

182 billion dollars -- 182 billion dollars and remain the second richest man in the world. that says it all. one doesnt need -- >> which tells you that he had too much in the first place and no human beings should have that much even on paper. its ridiculous. >> im glad, though, about your segment about how people are getting more worried about the gas stoves and you are talking about the culture wars and dr. seuss. and i remember don trump talking about not enough water coming into th...

And extreme right wing of his caucus. and of course we knew some of the demands. but the full scope of the promises he made were unclear, late night backroom these that he had set off with members of his caucus. we are now learning more, but the folly of the supposed debt prioritization plan that you talked about earlier in the program, and of course my colleague senator doggett on the ways and means committee, the real consequences that it would pose for the american people. this is very seriou...

-- this post authored by William J. Arnesen, Jacob Conway, and Matthew Plosser Since the depths of the Great Recession, household debt has increased from a low of $11 trillion in 2013 to more than $14 trillion in 2020 (see the New York Fed Household Debt and Credit Report). In this post, we examine how consumers’ repayment priorities have evolved over that time. Specifically, we seek to answer the following question: When consumers repay some but not all of their loans, which types do they ch...

We are the first ones that want to see a budget because thats when the framework that we start moving this country forward. >> do you have a deadline in your mind? >> i would have like to have done it done by april 15th. >> whats your next one? we passed that one. >> as soon as possible. >> okay. so let me try one more time. like within a month? >> as soon as we -- as soon as they can get together. paul is already meeting with senator mauer ray to get this moving forward. >> okay. let me ask you...

We are the first ones that want to see a budget because thats when the framework that we start moving this country forward. >> do you have a deadline in your mind? >> i would have like to have done it done by april 15th. >> whats your next one? we passed that one. >> as soon as possible. >> okay. so let me try one more time. like within a month? >> as soon as we -- as soon as they can get together. paul is already meeting with senator mauer ray to get this moving forward. >> okay. let me ask you...

This prioritization idea. >> why would you not like to prioritize? >> im just telling you, this is one. your areas -- >> are they owe posing something just to oppose something? by doing a debt prioritization what you are saying is you are making sure america never has the problem that they get downgraded within their credit of looking bad. we arent prioritizing when we borrow from somebody, we will take our debt." we are prioritizing going forward. >> if its such a good idea why dont you all agr...

Chris van hollen is a ranking member of the house budget committee and joins us. nice to see you, sir. >> great to see you, greta. >> greta: the gop wants to link increase of the debt ceiling in relation to passage of overhaul. >> we are not clear what our republican colleagues want with respect to the debt ceiling. right now they have the so called debt prioritization bill coming to the floor of hughes that says the united states will pay some of its bills but not other bills which i think is a...

Talk and that didnt happen. we have sequestration whether people like it or dont like it and now you we he have another stop here. >> that is disappointing. and i he have proposed a bill in the house to replace sequestration with an equal amount of deficit reduction but in what we consider a more targeted way. havent even gotten a chance to have a vote on it. i tried four times just to have a vote. im not asking speaker boehner to vote on it. just asking for a vote to replace sequester because w...

Chris van hollen is a ranking member of the house budget committee and joins us. nice to see you, sir. >> great to see you, greta. >> greta: the gop wants to link increase of the debt ceiling in relation to passage of overhaul. >> we are not clear what our republican colleagues want with respect to the debt ceiling. right now they have the so called debt prioritization bill coming to the floor of hughes that says the united states will pay some of its bills but not other bills which i think is a...