Patented businesses beyond suffering. This has been going on for well over eight to nine. So the passive transport secretary currently have no intention of dealing with this utterly at home to take on any. Prepare for longsuffering passengers. First cell, my right honorable friend has been taken steps in relation to the southern railway. Which stepped in to invest 20 Million Pounds to specifically tackle the issue every Rapid Improvement services. We now pay 15 from 11 which would make it easier to claim compensation. We then also give a refund for a month travel. So weve been looking at the wider issue. The honorable lady raises the question of the current strike. There is only one body responsible for the current strike that will frighten the trade union and she should be standing up in condemning that site. [cheers and applause] hugos squier. The 1. 5 billion additional funding for the better care find Better Care Fund is both needed and welcome. The problem is this money is not available in 2019. Will my right honorable friend there for a look at seen whether this funding can they draw down earlier than that in order to alleviate the pressure on social care in areas where theres a very high level of elderly people. My right honorable friend raises an important point about the shortterm pressures on social care. That said the government has been looking at what measures can be taken to immediate shortterm pressures. As i say the secretary will be making a statement on the finance element tomorrow. We need to look at the mediumterm issues have delivered mediumterm issues that delivered him a longterm reassurance we can provide people and ensuring they have a sustainable system of social care that gives people the comfort of knowing they will be cared for their old age. Can i join colleagues were urged people in this house and beyond to go out and buy the Jo Cox Foundation single mp for not just available on download as you can see, but hard copy for those of us who prefer that kind of thing. Every day since the results on the 23rd of june is a good day for very bad news. The worse news is then our social system. The way the tragedies and near misses to 2. 5 billion pounds and social care funding and thousands of operations council. Today mr. Speaker the secretary of health that the nhs is social care needed her money. And yet, the chancellor at the exchequer did not offer a single extra penny for health or social care. Which of the two do she agree with . Will she take the opportunity . [shouting] the local government will make a statement tomorrow on the finance summit. I i suggest the right honorable gentleman wafer that statement. Finally, mr. Billy davis. [shouting] the overseas budget was around 7 billion pounds a year. By 2020 we will have more than doubled to 50 Million Pounds a year. The shortfall in social care fund by 2020 is estimated about 2. 5 billion pounds a year. Surely the government priority should look at the disabled people in our own country before we have other countries. Will the Prime Minister take some of that money, a small amount of increase from the budget and spend it on elderly disabled people and around country. Surely begins at home. Is absolutely right the government is taking steps in relation to the pressures on social care if youre in the united kingdom, but i was dead think its also important for us that we do take consideration of those who are in different circumstances across the world. I think the record that this government has been ensuring. 7 of our gdp is spent on overseas aid is of records second to none. We should all be proud of the hopkins corp. We are giving to people around the world off incredibly difficult circumstances. With that after old people here in the u. K. We also take that responsibility for people around the world as well. Order. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] here and cspan2 will the british house of commons as members move on to other business. Even watching Prime Ministers question time aired live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. A quick reminder you can do this session again on cspan. For more information, go to cspan. Org and click on serious to view every program was aired from the british house of commons since october 1989. We invite your comments about house of commons via twitter you seen how should pmqs. Hello, everyone is welcome. I am the Vice President of poverty to prosperity programs at the center for American Progress. President electron campaign on a pledge to make America Great again and promised working families he was on their side. Unfortunately, he has never taken the oath of office yet and its becoming more and more apparent that his entire campaign was a bait and switch. He campaigned on creating good jobs are better than proposing policies to crack down on fair trade practices and level the Playing Field upward, hes taken his own wonders of moors, lavishing tax giveaways and refusing to divest from this mass of the conflict that real estate empire. He campaigned on raising wages of his cabinet picks are whos who of ceos on wall street tycoons hostile to working families. While he is tweeting the cast of saturday night live, the dirty work going down in the swamp, speaker brian and Peter Mcconnell are pulling together plans to take Health Care Coverage away, rollback Consumer Protections and dismantle affordable housing, nutrition assistant and other services famous turn to when times are tough. Especially when they are only working for a wealthy few while proposing tax giveaways to billionaires. The attacks on working families are coming fast and on multiple fronts. Progressive community is not standing by. Im pleased to introduce Washington Post reporter greg sargent, leather of the plumbline who will be interviewing ceo of on exactly what is at stake for working families and the Trump Administration were progressives go for care. Good morning, everybody. Hey, great. How are you doing . Ready to get thank you, melissa for that great intro. So now what . Is that your first question . Yes. Now i think we have told donald trump accountable for the premise to be made to workingclass families and hold them accountable for the agenda that hes putting forward so far. Hes made a lot of promises to be the Spokes Person in the advocate for families struggling and at least so far we have seen this promises to have been false. If its an agenda and if that agenda includes medicaid, massive taxes to the wealthy, then it is our job to advocate for those families and make sure they do better and not worse. Is sort of interesting. You have to distinguish between the promises he actually did make and the ones he did make. He told everyone pretty clearly that he was going to repeal obamacare and give a much larger tax break than any republican candidate. Where do you take that from their . That is an important point to distinguish. We are now hearing about block grant in our private medicare. Donald trump actually campaigned as a person who would support the safety net. While he did mention block granting medicaid, i have to say that there was not a robust policy debate on what that would really mean for people. He did talk about repealing the epa, but one of the challenges was that a lot of people who voted for him didnt take his policies particularly seriously. Youve even highlighted some of the voters who would Lose Health Care under the Affordable Care are two are announcing they didnt expect him to do it. I will just tell the audience that fast gallop to or numbers to get as close as we can to a rough estimate of how many is very imperfect than what they came up with was that of the doubt to drop in the uninsured rate among noncollege rice with a Household Income below 36,000. It turned out the uninsured rate had dropped 10 points among that demographic. We dont know if theyre all trump voters and so forth and someone back to the degree they voted, they did probably vote disproportionately at the very least. Was interesting about that and i want to ask you how this can be used in the debate. It is often seen as something especially Medicaid Expansion help minorities, especially latinos and africanamericans and no question the drop in the rate has been enormous and demographics but also enormous amount of noncollege lights were low in comes. You know, youve got Many Republican legislators who has stayed current lot of people lose coverage whether the Medicaid Expansion or subsidy. How do you make that date . These voters, are they in a position to hold their representatives accountable . The thing is one thing that i focus on is we had in it to a few years ago which only affect dead about 200, 300,000 voters. And as you recall, there is a chat kerfuffle around that. Theres another word i could use but i will go with kerfuffle. I think the issue for us is right now just a layout for the debate is, republicans would like to do is repeal and then are replaced for years later. That is relatively unprecedented to do a giant policy change in one year and then wait for the answer to that policy change after the next election. They want to do it precisely after the midterm. In the meantime, there will be a lot of people who boost health care a few days after the election would show the Insurance Markets will move into chaos once repeal has been issued as well. Our point is that we think that the voters will be affect it in those two years and that voters people will be affect it in that period. And it will be because of what republicans did. A couple hundred thousand, millions of people who will be priced out of the market for the Insurance Markets will start collapsing. People who are receiving health care that they need to survive and we have 1100 stories of people all around the country who are relying on health care now for lifesaving medication. And coverage of those people are going to be at risk. That goes to the broader point which is this is not a policy which debate in the election as you well covered by strength voters voted for the agenda, we did a poll on election day in a few days afterwards that a lot of trump voters, 49 of trump voters were sending a message of change to washington. Only 29 for supporting his agenda. And make sure voters who supported his agenda and people who thought he wasnt serious about a lot of the things he said. A lot of the chickens are coming home to roost. Some of it anecdotal reporting that i remember there is one rest stop voter and the times right after the elections they are to much that a relative who was very sick was going to Lose Health Care as the laws were repealed. I believe this woman said i dont believe hell do it. I think he was bluffing. What i wanted to ask you this is going to be about provoking question about what happened in this election. Hillary clinton and surrogates and so forth, every democrat who amplified his or her voice said over and over that this guy is a scam. Hes going to shaft working people. Why didnt workingclass white voters in particular here that message . Is there a flaw with the democratic agenda . You mentioned your polls show that a lot of these people were sending the message that just generic change. Did democrats signaled clearly enough that they are dissatisfied with the status quo and why did they feed that grounded trump . So in any really close election like this for the 70,000 boat difference you see a multitude of things you can look to you. It seems relatively clear to me that as pointed out in a pool, a lot of people were voting on particular issues, but more of a change message. I take that point that perhaps progressives are the candidate for the whole party didnt have a change message. I would say that theres a million reasons you can point to we are learning some additional news over the weekend, but for us going forward, the goal really has to be now that democrats are a Minority Party can we do have an opportunity to be clear by to be a clear path on economics as well as political reform and change in mrs. Dunn. We have a candidate we had a candidate who now has an incoming ministration in which hes promised to drain the swamp and thats actually an analysis cabinet appointments whether its the department of labor from the treasury, et cetera seems to be filling the swamp with people who are his donors who have a record of opposing and actually a record of making work working peoples lives harder but its the treasury secretary who foreclosed on people during the financial crisis of the secretary of labor who actually was fined by the department of labor for not paying the wages he owed his workers. Mac i think the midterms are looking pretty tough for donald trump, although it looks to me like the 2018 gubernatorial elections are going to be a chance for some major gains and a chance to sort of try and home this oppositional response. So how can democrats improve come in the short term they will be able to be the party that is standing up for medicare, against privatization and potentially Social Security, and against taking healthcare away from 20 million. What beyond that going into 2020, what needs improvement here . How can democrats craft a stronger, more ambitious, much more reform minded kind of agenda . So i think we will have additional thoughts on this later this week, but our view is at the center for American Progress, we are putting forward a memo on this later later, buti think our view is that we do need to claim the mantle of reform, reforming our economics, reforming our politics. In that space i think we have two argue really two things, that we have an agenda that does speak to voters and their economics and making their lives better. We will have a much stronger contrast now than you were able to offer at the end of a democratic administration. We will have a strong contrast with republicans. I think we have to focus on how to improve peoples daily lives with harder, clear arguments. One of the things donald trump showed us in this election is a very message im going to improve your life, im going to get a job for you, versus a mark obligated answer about wages and costs is a challenge. Thats something were working on now and we will have answers for folks going into the future. I guess one of my concerns on that front is that trump, he did talk about preserving medicare and Social Security but more broadly speaking it was really just about jobs. It wasnt about where as if youre going to respond any more nuanced way to globalization and automation, and the need to transition call, a nuanced response iq is not that satisfying. It comes across as sorry. I take the point its a little bit harder in peoples lives. I think the reality is that, im proud of the work c. A. P. Is done over the passover yours to point out and we talked about this before that the real challenge is around the middle class which is stagnant wages and rising costs. I also take the blame that sometimes a clear answer to folks is easier than a 10 point plan. That something progressives have to focus on. Also a lot of voters voted for him because they thought he was a different kind of politician. He was attacking republicans. He wasnt taking money from people himself. The whole drain the swamp message. That message has been almost immediately belied by just the last several weeks of this transition. In terms of the people hes putting in power. If you told people that ahead of time that he would have the richest it that most of us cap\cap would be donors to him, that it would be not just millionaires and billionaires, i think that w would have given se people pause in voting for this change agent spirit i guess i wonder, this question is a real one, so he explicitly said during the election that i have milk the system. I ripped it off. I have turned politicians into my little ponds turkey said that. Openly. Again and again and again. We all laughed and said what a joke but now he one. I guess i wonder whether theres going to be a similar dynamic setting in with some of these cabinet picks. I mean, may be the same types of voters dont really buy our argument that their corporate connections and so forth somehow will show the actual priorities. I think thats a fair question. If you listen to trump, he said that the part, i think it was both things, i knew how knew how to make the system, i knew how to use the system, if any said now im going to use it, take my knowledge and work for you. I think thats the part that we have to really test, which is it does not seem to me that he is using the system to work for us. Rather, using the system to work for him. And all his folks. And i think youre absolutely right. We need to test that propositionproposition, and we e wrong, but you cant argue that this is an economically populist election, and that populism is on the rise and then say really what people voted for was ensuring that gives billionaires control all the power in our country. We could test that proposition. My sense is if he continues to have a pretty low Approval Ratings i think he still governing and a very divided way and i think we have to see, i think it will be tested how much people approve it. People do not seem to be like broadly in support of this cap\cap and hes assembling. I think thats the role of organizations like ours to point out come not just that they are bad people what they will do, what it means in the lives of real people and real families. The department of labor is supposed to be a department that advocates for working families. It advocates are working families by ensuring that they get the wages they need, that they protected and workplace and he is put someone in the department to run it that his entire philosophy is antithetical to that. Whether its popular or not, organizations like ours point out that is wrong and this does not meet the needs of families at a think were up to the public is whether that makes sense or not. Can i ask either some perils aheadahead, sort of what comes f Democratic Unity .