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Real dollars as a percentage of gdp, that cost more than lbjs great society and fdrs new deal combined, and that doesnt even include the 1.2 trillion already passed in the 600 billion proposed that past. the bill expands medicaid, obamacare, includes money for government funding, housing, government-funded medicine, government-funded healthy food, government-funded green energy programs, day care, early childhood education, free college, and to pay for all of this they are going to raise taxes o...

This is more ambitious than fdrs new deal programs and lbjs great society plan and heres what is in the social spending package. four billion for distance learning. 12 billing for electric cars and postal workers on the job. a big provision to beef up irs enforcement but the bill alsofo provides money for paid family and medical leave blessed billings for the environment.. the bill must remain at $3.5 trillion. >> they want to pass bidens agenda. they need to get on board. >> we are open to nego...

Are "idealistic." lets think about what they are going to do here. this is more ambitious than fdrs new deal programs and lbjs great society plan and heres what is in the social spending package. for berlin for distance learning. 12 billing for electric cars and postal workers on the job. a big provision to be up irs enforcement but the bill also provides money for paid family and medical leave blessed billings for the environment. the bill must remain at $3.5 trillion. >> they want to pass bide...

Has come to now. we are not talking about what happens in the future. we dont know whats going to happen in the future. you dont default at your bank for debts. you may accrue in the future. you default because of what you already done. this is trumps debt, this is mcconnells debt, this is republicans debt. by the way, if theyre calling people socialists, right? trump is calling people socialists, hey, socialists are big spenders, right? republicans spent more. >> i know this is hard for people ...

I know this is hard for people to figure out, republicans spent more money on budgets over four trump years than any president before. l.b.j., f.d.r., you name it. jimmy carter, bill clinton. you pick the democrat. you pick the person that was lied about, would be called a socialist, republicans spent more money. so now they dont want to pay their own bill and they say were not going to pay our own bill because democrats are socialists. let me ask you, lemire, when we go to fenway, can we try th...

Is doing right noi. thats why the republican party telling americans theyre going to let the country default on its debt which will be economically devastating because theyre not going to pay their own bills. >> first of all, we would need barnacle to get in that club. you and i cant get in. >> true that. >> this is wrapped up under president trump. there is a decade for both party and the republicans voted to raise the debt ceiling repeatedly. there is the extraordinary and accurate claim of hy...

As president biden was getting his booster shot today, he told reporters hes continuing to hold meetings and phone calls with lawmakers to broker a political truce among democrats in support of his infrastructure and social spending plans with the cacophony of the competing demands in congress this week, it could be make or break for president bidens sweeping agenda. first theres the hard infrastructure bill, the physical infrastructure bill, which democratic moderates in the house want to vote ...

Should you be dealing with them in an individual piece here? i understand the situation of reconciliation. but you could be debating each part of this bill one at a time and you might actually get your message to the people that this isnt just a money grab. >> ill tell you, i was a mayor during the health care debates, and it took years before suddenly the affordable care act, call it obamacare, but know the affordable act polls for every group, republicans, independents and democrats. again, th...

Passing some of these bills and now it seems like its taking longer, thats familiar throughout history. barack obama faced many hurdles on health care. lbj, as he pushed through the great society and civil rights, or all the way back to fdr, who was castigated for what then became eventually core parts of our safety net, including social security. why am i talking about history on a friday? theres no better way to end the week than with historian michael beschloss. michael, a lot of people forge...

Hes got to hold that senate coalition but youve been able to remind us, this is one thing that hasnt changed. lbj said theres one way for a president to deal with congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. joe manchin was not who he was dealing with, but boy did he have plenty of irascible senators, michael. >> yeah, youre right, ari, and the real version of johnsons quote in private was probably a lot more profane than the elegant version that you just gave us fo...