four-vote margin. that isn t much when you sit down and count votes. i don t want to project a strategy. i want her to do it. she s as accomplished as they come. i can understand people want to see the infrastructure bill pass with no strings attached but she has to hold not just enough votes for the infrastructure bill but the fol-on budget resolution. i give her all the flexibility she needs to reach that goal. i have to ask about the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. it seems as though you re thinking about you and your colleagues are thinking about stretching the limits of the senate rules, maybe trying to get voting rights in there, what senator klobuchar, you mentioned daca. how much are you going to try to stuff in there? i can tell you this is a once in a political lifetime opportunity when it comes to issues like immigration. it s been 36 years since we ve had immigration reform. it s long overdue. everyone knows the system is broken. we can see it at our borders and
republican senators said we will not raise the debt ceiling without structural change. that s what we agreed to do. brett: it was under the trump administration with no strings attached. i m fed up with a government that can t live within their meats means. every family has to figure out how to live within their means. i grew up in a poor family. my mom had to figure out how to put food on the table without borrowing money. we all have to do it in our personal lives. we have to do it as government. you can do it. watch how you spend the money. on this bill, do it responsibly. do roads, bridges, airports and sea ports. don t borrow money. grow the economy. brett: i want to turn to covid if i could. your state has seen a rise, major rise in covid case, hospitalizations. this is what the president said this week. let the state with the lowest vaccination rates are seeing 10 to 20 times as many new cases
conditions, no coercion attached. and there s no favoritism and no strings attached. we re doing this to save lives and to end this pandemic. that s it. in fact, we re donating vaccines to countries that hwe have real issues with. and we ll continue to give tens of millions of doses away across this summer and work to increase u.s. manufacturing and the manufacturing of vaccines around the world as well. it s not just vaccines. we re continuing to provide countries in need with more testing, protective equipment, and personnel to stem the surge of the virus. we ve done it in india and elsewhere. let me close with this. i ve said before, in the race for the 21st century between democracy and autocracies, we need to prove that democracies can deliver. and the democracies of the world are looking to america to lead
they re not demands, no conditions, no conditions attached. there s no favoritism and no strings attached. we re doing this to save lives and to end this pandemic. that s it. in fact, we re donating vaccines to countries that we have real issues with and will continue to give tens of millions of dose as cross this summer and work to increase manufacturing of vaccines across the world as well. it s not just vaccines. we re continuing to provide countries in need with more testing, protective equipment and personnel to stem the surge of the virus. we ve done it in india and elsewhere. let me close with this. i ve said before in the race for the 21st century between democracy and autoacracies.
attached. no favoritism, no strings attached. we are doing it to end this pandemic, save lives. that s it. in fact we re donating vaccines to countries we have real issues with, and we will continue to give tens every millions of doses away across the summer and work for increase u.s. manufacturing of vaccines around the world as well. it s not just vaccines. we re continues to provide countries with more testing, protective equipment, and personnel, to stem the surge of the virus. we have done it in india and elsewhere. let me close with this i ve said before, in a race for the 21st century between democracy and autocracies, we need to prove that democracies can deliver. the democracies of the world are