this is going to benefit people across the country. the infrastructure bill is fantastic, we re touting its benefits. but the thing that is different about this is you will wake up anyone watching this show, you will wake up and see your costs cut. you will see child care. finally you ll have child care. you ll see that you re able to afford the cost of housing because there will be more housing, the biggest investment in housing in our country s history. you will know if you re a young person that you re going to have a planet, and that we are actually taking real action to reduce carbon emissions. there are so many things in this bill about changing how you feel when you wake up in the morning, and that is what we have to do to reach americans across the country and say government s got your back. that s what the build back better act will do. washington congresswoman pramila jayapal, the chair of the congressional progressive caucus in the midst of the final debate on this bill
to afford the cost of housing, because there will be more housing. the biggest investment in housing in our country s history. you will know, if you re an young person, if you re going to have a planet. and that we are actually taking action to reduce carbon admission. there are so many things in this bill that are about changing how you feel when you wake up in the morning. and that is what we have to do to reach americans across the country, and say, government has got to back. that is with the build back better act will do. washington congresswoman, formula jayapal, the chair of the aggression caucus, in the midst of the final debate on this bill tonight that is due to pass. primala jayapal just told us confidently that is going to pass tonight. the votes are. there congressman i know it s going to be a late night, thank you for taking this moment. thank you rachel, don t forget to send me my optimist and chief plaque for the rachel maddow show. i will, it s unfortunately just
which turned out to be a 24-hour visual for 24 s straight hours for disability rights activists camped outside the capital. and they talked about why so many lives depend on passing build back better. specifically, the billions of dollars of support in that bill for home and community based care for elderly and disabled people. so, elderly and disabled people who need extra help don t have to be institutionalized, if that is not otherwise in their interest. they can stay, home they could get help at home. there s billions of dollars in support for that in the build back better bill. and i ll tell you, that part of president biden s agenda has not gotten this much agenda some of the other parts but it s a big deal that affects a big number of americans. right, now the number of elderly and disabled americans who are on the waiting list for that kind of care, for home based care services, it s about 800,000 people. on the waitlist. at one point, in the night,
first time we are going to invest as a country and people s ability to get help at home so that they could stay at home. with a little extra help, without having to go to a nursing home. 800,000 americans on the waiting list for that kind of care. they are finally going to get that kind of care supported by that bill. it is also, as you ve heard, the biggest investment and climate resilience that we ve ever had as a country. that includes the biggest investment that we ve had in weather forecasting. and research, that would be better if that was better. we are also going to make the post office vehicle electric. now you know that mail trucks get ten mile per gallon? why aren t the post offices vehicles electric vehicles? well, this bill will do. that also trash buses, school buses, that should have been done a gazillion years ago. we will finally get to that. now pipes for drinking water that are made of lead never was a good idea in the
win the voting rights act was still in force. is there still potential help coming from the courts? there is a remedy, rachel, but it s a harder remedy. previously, galveston would have had to approve this kind of racially discriminatory change with the federal government. and it would have been blocked, which is why they did not propose this kind of thing in the first place. now they can do it. you can only charge it after the fact. so there is going to be litigation filed, not just in galveston but in places like texas and georgia where they are this and acting discriminatory statewide maps. it will take a long time to litigate these cases. meantime, cases will be held under discriminatory and likely legal maps. ari, i think a lot of democrats and a lot of fair minded americans i m glad we play that clip, of that white women speaking at that galveston meeting, saying i am not a democrat or republican, but this seems racist to me, and she went on in her remarks to say, find a litt