are stalled in the senate. this week the president floated an alternative way to get some of the social safety net pieces passed. is that doable? here is the man who would write those bills, independent senator bernie sanders from vermont. thank you for joining me. here we are one year into the biden presidency. those two key priorities are stalled in the senate because senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema won t get on board. how frustrated are you? it s not only those two. it s 50 republicans who have been adamant, not only in pushing an anti-democratic agenda, but also opposing our efforts to try to lower the cost of prescription drugs, to expand medicare to include dental, hearing and eyeglasses, to improve the disastrous situation in home health care, in child
because senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema won t get on board. how frustrated are you? it s not only those two. it s 50 republicans who have been adamant, not only in pushing an anti-democratic agenda, but also opposing our efforts to try to lower the cost of prescription drugs, to expand medicare to include dental, hearing and eyeglasses, to improve the disastrous situation in home health care, in child care, to address the existential threat of climate change. you have 50 republicans who don t want to do anything except criticize the president. you have, sadly enough, two democrats who choose to work with the republicans rather than the president and who have sabotaged the president s efforts to address the needs of working families in this
about inflation. there s definitely fear out there among democrats that they could lose the house in 2022, and, you know, may very well lose the senate as well. easier there. yeah. the moderates, too, the closer we get to the election, the tougher i think it s going to be for them to get anything through the house, right now it s four, the margin, moved around a little bit as numbers have changed. do you think there s a realistic policy that moderates won t get on board with the budget reconciliation spending plan because they re too nervous about it or do you think nancy pelosi will make sure they stay in line? absolutely, we heard stephanie murphy talking about this, the old conservative house democrats, not as many as there used to be, the caucus is much more progressive than it was 10,
jessica: i think they certainly jump in if infrastructure is what s next. we ll have to talk to paul ryan who wants well welfare reform . if you get into a fight with democrats about entitlement reform after you ve had this arguably huge win on the tax bill, i think that doesn t bode well. donald trump knows, he has an infrastructure guy, he works with democrats his own life, he is a new yorker and we are full of democrats. to your question to lisa about the risk here dagen: i want to say something about infrastructure, this is critically important. you have several trillion dollars, of money, of profits overseas that with a 15.5% repatriation tax and the tax reform bill, if that money comes back here, it s taxed immediately and has been talked about by major politicians, that s one way they could pay for infrastructure and that is why the democrats won t get on board with it.
deal with. i m known for somebody who can bring both sides together so we don t want to ignore our democrat friends as well. i hope they will get off and start working with us instead of just blocking everything we try to come up with. martha: there you have it. oklahoma senator james langford. quite happy with us tonight. thank you, good to see you again. martha: i think a lot of people look at this general legislative process and say what is going on? how was it that once again the white house s biggest problem are senators in their own party who won t get on board. is not a matter of just getting on board, it s resolving on the final issues and questions. there have been 70 hearings over the past couple of years just in the senate on this issue of tax reform. each one of those is built on it as now it gets narrower and narrower and narrower to the final solution. everyone has one less statement to try to be able to resolve it. everyone is looking at a very complicated bill a