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The Atlantic The Presidency Won’t Go Back to How It Was President Joe Biden—and those who follow him—will navigate a new political landscape, reshaped by four years of Donald Trump. January 19, 2021 Getty / The Atlantic After years of Donald Trump’s boorish defiance of presidential norms, his incitement of the violence at the Capitol closed his term with a demented rave that shamed American democracy. Tomorrow Joe Biden will return the presidency to a more decorous and honorable choreog...

>> reminds you how the territory is so uncharted in so many ways. mcconnell weighing moving ahead without support of chuck schumer by going to the floor on a rule that would be approved then by just a majority. 51 senators. sources say mcconnell prefers, though to cut a bipartisan deal with schumer. prefer to do that. tim, if mcconnell did go ahead, though, without democratic support, how unprecedented would that be? >> this is the first time that the -- that congress has been divided between th...

They gave away wages in order to get good healthcare paired covers all health care needs. >> when i wrote the bill. im neck and a support any plan that rips a weight quality healthcare from individuals. im done with union members on this basis. they sacrifice wages to get the cadillac plans. they want them to have good benefits. pretend that a second impact at second impact the foundation of democratic support. i think there is 600,000 union members in michigan alone. griff jenkins is a life rig...

Including democrats and the presidents team, and it has to be two things. it has to be more money than the fiscal 2018 amount which is 1.3 billion and that amount has to be allowed for building a border wall. the democrats have been insistent over the years of trying to prevent any border security money from being spent on construction of a wall. until they get off that talking point and agree to allow some of the money for the border wall, the president doesnt seem to be ready to budge on his e...

Including democrats and the presidents team, and it has to be two things. it has to be more money than the fiscal 2018 amount which is 1.3 billion and that amount has to be allowed for building a border wall. the democrats have been insistent over the years of trying to prevent any border security money from being spent on construction of a wall. until they get off that talking point and agree to allow some of the money for the border wall, the president doesnt seem to be ready to budge on his e...

Before i get to you guys, i want to play the response from senate democratic leader chuck schumer of new york to president trumps tweet. take a listen. >> with his tweet this morning, president trump made sure that todays meeting is nothing but a photo-op. these issues are far too serious for these kinds of games. mr. president, its time to stop tweeting and start leading. >> so, amanda carpenter, let me start with you. there obviously are some legitimate sticking points when it comes to a gover...

$115 billion dollars a year. >> a will the of people are trying to play catch-up and its just going to kick them with a bigger tax bill. for the average person thats saving $18,000 thats going to mean, $10,000 more in taxes they owe and that just means theyre going to save less. >> that was msnbc stephanie ruhle reporting. >> what will you be looking for as congress works on tax reform? >> they just cleared -- the senate passed their budget resolution so that essentially paves the way to be able...

Medicare for all efforts, is that rooted at all in even remote possibility? >> medicare for all is very much a possibility. probably not the way bernie wants to write the bill, but medicare for all is quite popular. the details are a problem. but that will be ironed out. the first time its had big time democratic support. i think its good. >> okay, howard and susan, good to talk to you both. were have sg to stop the conversation here, because for all of you, were just minutes away from the start...

You cant -- >> speaker ryan has learned those rumblings are daily. >> what i think is interesting is, you know, the has either rule has really contempt the republicans in congress from being able to move things and pass things without democratic support. every big thing thats happened in the last five or ten years has happened with democratic votes. and i think what the president is seeing is thats the way to make things happen. if he grabs a moderate republicans and a bunch of democrats, he can...

Going to work with him he has to figure out how hes going to pay for this stuff and figure out how hes going to advance tax cuts permanent as oppose to temporary. maria: committee for responsible budget said this could cost 3 and $7 trillion. thats a really big range. jon: that cant pass congress without democratic support. they have to go by the rules of reconciliation which dont allow for deficits beyond a ten-year window which means big deficits, tax cuts would expire after ten years, thats o...