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Other ways to bring the costs down. that being said, he is also into means testing on a lot of these policy priorities, which could bring the cost down as well, though were also seeing on the other side of this as those things are floated in the press, other parts of the coalition come back and say, hey, thats not just for me. were seeing this jockeying not happening just in the white house between these top senators and lawmakers, were seeing it spill out to the press in a very public way. the ...

That. one of the things we talked about is we need to be more specific about whats in there. theres going to be universal preschool. the president was the most passionate about this saying all these other countries do this. this is going to give every kid in america a fair starting point. theres going to be a child tax credit continued. we will have vision, dental, hearing. thats going to be in there. there will be some funding for community college scholarships. there will be funding for the ex...

Proponents of means testing propose turned the guys of fiscal responsibility. fundamentally means testing is a choice to deprive millions of our neighbors of what they need simply to cope. if manchin is a firm no and you cant pass something without manchins vote, are you willing to accept some means testing to these new benefits you want to create? >> well, john, look, progressives are pragmatic. i also hope that joe manchin will be progmatic in that hell look at what the research shows. in that...

The key players are talking more all of a sudden but theres no evidence yet key policy differences are being bridged as democrats try, try and try to put together a giant social safety net package. for example, senator joe manchin wants to include means testing. what you earn, the senator says, should determine whether youre entitled to some government benefit, but progressives call that bad policy and bad politics. joining me now one of those progressives, the democrat from new york, congress m...

Build-back better program have to be accessible to people in -- but in your latest op-ed you wrote that means testing which limits these benefits based on income would actually prevent more people from accessing these programs. i just want a quote from you, in theory, means testing excludes the undeserving rich in practice it often excludes the most vulnerable poor who arent always able to jump through the required hoops to prove their eligibility. can you tell me a little bit about what you mea...

To have everything you just described in there. theres going to be something that gives. is means testing something youre open to? >> i would just say we whittled down our priorities. we dont have a big laundry list of 8,000 things. we have five things that i mentioned. and those things i do think will be in this bill, but probably for shorter periods of time, funded for shorter periods of time. and that is is the important piece were getting at. i think you and i have all this means testing con...

Could be the idea of means testing, which is another word we use inside the beltway, people outside of it, somewhat irrelevant, the idea that you focus these programs toward the lowest income americans, right? reasonable option to you or is that a deal breaker? i get thats not your first choice. i get thats not your second choice. is it a deal breaker or not? >> it is reasonable for certain things. if youre saying that the earned income tax credit should go to working families and not the rich, ...

Lets not talk about the amount amount, lets talk about the policies because thats whats going to sell. >> they do talk about the amount, they do talk about the policy, like means testing. progressives have said thats not enough, but does it seem to you thats the direction that this is headed? >> i think we all have to compromise. we need 98.7% of democrats to agree on this. franklin roosevelt governed and presided over the new deal when he had 310-plus democrats in the house. speaker pelosi has ...

Because we want people to feel the transformational effect of these policies. on means testing, i would just say that the way that most means testing has been structured in this country has been an abject failures. it erects administrative barriers that prevent the most needy people from getting the very benefits. if you have so many qualifications that you cant even figure out if you qualify. second, it actually adds enormous administrative costs because somebody has to figure out if somebody q...

Where we passed $15 minimum wage ten years ago is high cost of living, high housing costs, very dense, housing available, and childcare is like $2,800 a month. so two schoolteachers earning $68,000 are in the working class people -- contingent. so that is why we have to be very careful about means testing. ill also say that means testing is incredibly bureaucratic. it takes a lot of administrative work and sometimes it actually costs so much and is to complicated that the very people that need t...