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moment, flanked by vice president kamala harris. and it is worth noting tonight, not just what this president who has been in 50 days this evening has gotten done but how he has done it, with very little drama, no tweets and his party pretty much united. while this bill isn't perfect, it is remarkable. president biden's steady hand hasn't let us to. we've seen ramped up vaccinations, a schedule, reversal of wicked policies like the muslim ban, return of the paris climate accords and now the passage of the american rescue plan, to rescue an economy that was left in a flaming dumpster ...

Plan of action but rather a plan of attack on the poor and middle-class americans. it gives tax cuts to the rich, it cuts into medicare which is a promise and nondiscretionary spending, it cuts it by $424 billion. this is something that will mess up our country's infrastructure as well as harm those individuals that need the most help. >> heather: when it does come to defense spending, it does provide the funding to secure the border and protect the homeland. >> under the obama administration, there was the least amount of spending this country has seen since world war ii. it will be critical ...

In american history. it's the day that the national debt is now $15 trillion and the president rather than tackling this challenge, rather than facing up to our debt is pursuing policies that are making matters worse. >> our debts have crossed the $15 trillion number yesterday. that ought to be a giant wakeup call to the congress that it's time to rip the band-aid off and do what needs to be done. >> did i miss something? did speaker boehner miss the bush presidency? did he miss the tax cuts bush initiated? those tax cuts will add $424 billion to this year's deficit alone. one-third of our def...

That's for military operations, foreign aid reconstruction, and so forth. the creation of a sprawling new bureaucracy, the department of homeland security, over the past decade, that agency has spent more than $424 billion. consider airport screening and other forms of travel security, that alone has run up a tab of over $66 billion, huge, huge numbers. we've added about $18 billion in foreign aid to pakistan. the country where much of our hunt for bin laden was focused. of course, we ultimately found him on our own and many think they were hiding him. in new york city, the attack on the world...

Cuts that president bush put through, if you look at what that -- just that part is, you deal with $424 billion, you're not trying to act like that's not a significant part of the deficit. >> it is actually a very significant part. but remember, president obama, democrats, accept 80% of the bush tax cuts for 59% of the people. so they've actually said number one one most of the tax cuts weren't for the wealthy and we have accepted that. there is no proposal to accept bush tax cuts that i have heard from the democrat, certainly from the president. >> we have heard the president say he would not...