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In the wake of West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin’s announcement on Fox News Sunday that he would oppose the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better bill, the evening newscasts on Monday night spent a significant amount of time covering the big setback for the Biden agenda and pili

District are suffering, we just buried a 17-year-old who was shot dead in the head a couple of weeks ago. this bill has 2.5 billion for violence prevention. it has universal child care, universal prek. it finally deals with the climate issue the same way black and brown people and women were kept out of the new deal. joe mansion is trying to keep people out of this bill today and its unacceptable and we need to do everything in our power make sure it passes. >> so what do you say when he reacts ...

His position and breach in the commitments to the president and colleagues in the house and senate, however, she was far more muted in todays press briefing saying she cant speak for senator mansion and the white house remains focused on what is next. senator mansion said hes open to new programs that are fully funded over ten years. and "the washington post" reports that before negotiations broke down, senator mansion told the white house that he would accept a $1.8 trillion package that includ...

The gas here. im confident the president will secure the votes necessary to pass this but again, were going to keep the pressure up because these investments are historic and sorely needed and long over due. investments like home and community based services to address a wait list that is thousands long for services for the disabled and the elderly, expansion of medicare to include hearing, lowering of prescription drug costs. investments in universal prek, in child care and also ensuring that w...

Shared by republicans in the senate, which means you need every democrat in the senate and joe mansion if he were here with us wouldnt agree with what you just said about paid family leave and the way the government may invest in people that -- how do you explain this to somebody like joe mansion because hes the guy you need. you need kyrsten sinema and joe mansion on this. >> joe mansion needs to hear from and speak with his constituents. his constituents who are in dire need of lower cost and ...

Quality and affordable for literally every child in america. you already talked about universal prek for 3 and 4-year-olds and making health care affordable by expanding medicare to include hearing. this is beneficial to hundreds of thousands of my constituents. in fact, all of my constituents when you think about climate change and how it impacts everybody on the planet. this is something democrats did by unifying and of course, i got to give house progressives credit through insisting that we ...

Recall chesa boudin now. a big step forward for president bidens again to today. democrats passing the 1. 9 trillion dollar economic agenda including more money for child care, home health care, obamacare subsides, universal prek and more but its anyones guess what will happen when the senate has its say. joining me to discuss, and former republican congressman charlie dent and analyst kirsten powers, the author of the new amazing book called "saving grace." welcome to both of you. kirsten, af...

Has gone up 1,300%. we have seen that the top 10 wealthiest people in the country own 90% of the stocks. so the bill is about how we get money in the pockets of people. universal preschool. one year less of child care that a family has to pay. money in their pockets. capping child care at 7% of your income. money in your pockets. helping seniors with glasses and hearing aids. money in their pockets. a tax cut finally for working people, and not for the top 1%. but for families. that is money in ...

Whether the delay in passing his economic agenda led to the democrats defeat in virginia. >> people want us to get things done. it should have passed before election day. but i am not sure that i would be able to have changed the number of very conservative folks that turned out in the red districts that were trump voters. but maybe. maybe. >> some democrats in the senate were much less cautious about their assessment of yesterdays vote. >> look, if we had been able to deliver infrastructure and...

Are interested in but for a limited time frame so the extended child tax credit, for example, extended for only a year the affordable care act extended in the essentially the subsidies or assistance for that, extended to 2025 prek for 6 years and not permanent. the strategy being, okay, if the programs prove popular with voters then its going to be very difficult future congress not to continue to fund them. eric: yeah, the administration has been touting the plan, talking about medicare, how it...