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Lawmakers getting backlash at home for supporting it. >> yes, senator lindsey graham overnight the post and courier reporting the aiken county republican party overwhelmingly voting to censure him. that censure itself is a slap on the wrist. doesn't mean much for him saz this moves forward with one local party there opposing his support for the $550 billion bipartisan bill. if you remember former president trump in the weeks and days leading up to that vote. she was threatening all republicans who were considering voting for the bill, including senator lindsey graham, who is a big ally of the ...

Some of the spending president biden is pushing out there with social. this is long term spending. every president has strongly supported it and we've never been able to get it done. donald trump proposed $1.5 trillion in an infrastructure package. sometimes he talked about even more than that. i give him credit. he is the one who got republicans thinking about the importance of investing in infrastructure. hours is $550 billion. it is over a five-year period. again, it is something that's needed and good for the economy. makes the economy more efficient and brings tax revenue into the economy...

Infrastructure. let's pull out the core infrastructure that everybody wants to do. that was $550 billion out of the 2.65 trillion and let's take all the tax increases out of it. we did. that's what this is right now, this bipartisan package represents. the reason marc thiessen thinks it's good in terms of saving the filibuster is right now the 60-vote margin is necessary to get things done. under a filibuster it would go away. the democrats would be able to pass all sorts of bad legislation including making d.c. a state and changing the supreme court and so on. what the democrats have argued i...

Often anyway. that bipartisanship was a thing of the past. it was characterized as a relics of an earlier age as you may well remember, i never believed that and i still don't. >> the bipartisan infrastructure bill is just one piece of the biden infrastructure proposal. the senate is moving to pass the $3.5 trillion budget resolution and tonight, house majority leader hoyer in a letter to colleagues announced the house will cut the summer recess short. he'll return on august 23rd to consider the democrats only budget resolution after it passes the senate. leading off our discussion tonight is ...

I was not just wrong. i was explosively wrong. is that the right way to put it? i was wrong with a side of fries and every dipping sauce. whatever the opposite of i told you so is, that is what i should say right now. i was completely wrong. today after months and months of back and forth, democrats and republicans in the u.s. senate passed a $550 billion infrastructure bill and they did it together. i was so sure republicans were pulling the same trick they pulled with obamacare in 2009 where they dragged bipartisan talks out for like a year and pretended to be so interested in supporting som...