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To be negotiating forever and standing for nothing. >> vermont senator, bernie sanders. the chairman of the budget committee. sir, thank you for your time tonight. it has been too long since you have been here with us. i really appreciate you making time for us tonight. >> thank you very much. >> all right, lets bring into the conversation one of the central players in the effort to craft this build back better deal. washing ton congresswoman primala jayapal, chair of the progressive caucus. in ...

Legislation to pass the senate. and we are also calling on the president to take some significant executive actions that will make peoples lives better today. and it will also put pressure on continuing to get legislation through instead of doing it through executive action. so, we will have a two track process here. we are not giving up. but it is a hard day. ill be honest. rd dwhat is it that you think te president can do by executive action? let pieces of this or what goals do you think he ca...

And i think the truth needed to be told here, rachel. which was that senator manchin did make a commitment to the president on the framework that the president unveiled to us the day before he went to comp. and that framework, rachel, would have never happen if the progressive caucus in the house did not stand up and refused to pass the infrastructure bill until we got that framework. and then until we got the legislative text. but i do believe that senator manchin has said many things. and he i...

There’s a reason they wanted the social spending bill tied to infrastructure.

Finger-pointing consumed the Democratic party on Monday, one day after Sen.

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Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) on Monday called on President Biden to use executive action to unilaterally enact pieces of Democrats’ Build Back Better agenda, just one day after Sen.

More than 40 House Democrats on Monday called on President Biden to open up access to economic reserves for Afghanistan in order to prevent "imminent mass starvation."

Thanks. lets bring in democratic congresswoman madeline dean, a member of the house financial services commit and also the progressive caucus. this bill addressed everything from the climate crisis to plans to lower prescription drugs and all of that is essentially wiped out at this point. whats your biggest concern right now? >> all of that and so much more. how about hearing aids for seniors, affordable housing, addressing the climate cries and so much more. mr. manchin is at a low moment in h...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) asked to be left out of a White House public statement last week on the stalled Build Back Better plan because his family had been the target of abuse.