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Ali, let me start with you. whats the government defaulting on its debt really mean? >> you can sort of think about this like you can think about paying your credit card bill, only the credit card bill were talking about is the u.s. governments. the debt ceiling battle here on capitol hill is the congress saying to the government, this is how much money you can borrow to go back and pay your debts. its important to point out that this is money that the government has already spent. so big ticket...

Selection you thought you did. we are now looking at the end of the year much lower than the federal reserve expected. the expectations for growth not coming in for the overall year of 2021, way down from the target of 7%, which was their projection back in march. we are looking at intention to buy big ticket items like homes, cars, appliances. intentions to buy those things that multi-decade lows, because inflation is also eating into our purchasing power. >> bill: there it is again. talking ab...

Lets talk about value. >> when the president president said its all paid for grab you wallet. what is talking about is raisin your taxes. >> all this is joe biden continues his push to get more americans to vax up, the 78 -year-old getting his booster shot and urging all americans regardless of political perspective to get vaccinated o the booster shot. when eligible. and a balance it out senator mitch mcconnell -- mitch mcconnell said the same p.m. capitol hill. the spending spree for a moment ...

$79 billion with a b goes to the irs. it goes to strengthen tax enforcement, this is how theyre going to pay for the entire thing. $12 billion for electric christmas for federal employees. $3 bill for tree equity. 4 billion for schools, $25 million for bias training. a lot of things have not been priced out. medicare and medicaid, big ticket items likely to cost $300 billion each. the likely hold if this whole thing will exceed that $3.5 trillion price tag. its not going to go over well with mod...

Ideas. $79 billion goes to the irs to strengthen tax enforcement, this is how theyre going to pay for it. $12 billion for electric cars for your mailmen, federal employees. $3 billion for tree equity. $25 million for bias training. heres the thing. a lot of this bill hasnt been priced out yet. were talking about things like expanding medicaid and medicare. these are big ticket items that will likely cost hundreds of billions. so were looking at the likelihood that this whole thing will sky rocke...

Employees. $4 billion for distance learning in schools. 3 billion for what democrats call tree equity or planting trees in poorer neighborhoods. another 59 million for resource centers for racial and ethnic minorities. 15 million to support older and under served americans due to their sexual orientation or gender identity and 25 million for bias training. and how do they plan to pay for it? by handing $79 billion to the irs to strengthen tax enforcement. >> when the president says its all paid ...

Those are really big ticket items that will likely cost hundreds of billions of dollars and this actually skyrockets over 3.5 trillion and thats not going to go over well with the moderates out there. dont forget how speaker pelosi has tied vote on this bipartisan infrastructure bill to sort of placate wings of her own party but todays deadline for a vote on infrastructure is not delayed until thursday. >> i cant support any reconciliation package that doesnt lower taxes here in my district by r...

$3 billion for tree equity. $4 billion for distance learning in schools throwing 74 million for resources for minorities and people with gender identity issues and anti-discrimination and bias training. here is the thing, bill. this isnt the final version. so much of this bill hasnt been priced out yet. this is a progressive wish list including like medicaid and medicare, big ticket items that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars. were looking at the likelihood that this skyrockets over 3.5...

Get the crux of this reconciliation package through. it just might not be as quickly as next week. >> okay, brian. you just mentioned congresswoman jyapal and she broke into tears when arguing for immigration reform during a white house meeting with the president yesterday. lawmakers have real personal connections to the work that they are doing, but are they risking letting the purpose be the enemy of the good here? >> i dont think so. so i think that its progressives that are actually challeng...

>> okay, brian. you just mentioned congresswoman jypal and she broke into tears when arguing for immigration reform during a white house meeting with the president yesterday. lawmakers have real personal connections to the work that they are doing, but are they risking letting the purpose be the enemy of the good here? >> i dont think so. so i think its progressives that are actually challenging the party to stay true to what they campaigned on in 2020. again, what are the biggest ticket items i...