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I'm mehdi hasan. september was supposed to be the month in which congress passed hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending and guess what? the house did. by a vote of 316-113. now you might be scratching your head and saying didn't the bipartisan infrastructure bill fail to come to a vote on thursday night? isn't the budget reconciliation bill nowhere near ready for a vote? you're right on both counts. i'm not talking about those bills. i'm talking about a bill that flew quietly under the radar in the house like a stealth bomber on the occasions in which it actually works. a bill which a...

Grants, paid maternity leave, expanding the child tax credit. progressives want to spend $3.5 trillion. manchin's top line, he says -- and it's been for a while -- 1.5, right? >> yeah. >> what's likely to make it into the final bill, and how much do you think? >> look, i think you got to go back to what harwood was saying a minute ago. there are going to be ways to figure out how to limit this, whether by means testing or by some kind of date of expiration. they're obviously not going to get $3.5 trillion worth of stuff. they're going to have to figure out how to pick and choose what they're g...

$3.5 trillion over ten years, right? i need to put that into context. $350.01 year for ten years. depending on budget this year, $768 billion. do that over ten years, $7 trillion. let's just contextualize in the scale of the whole economy we're talking about. that's the important part. >> meaning? >> meaning we have capacity. we have capacity to do. this let's look at what the borrowing situation is going to be, if the government can figure out the debt limit, which is probably a thing you and i ought to spend time on before i get out of here. the government can borrow. interest rates are low,...

Spending, well, it passed a $768 billion bill for the pentagon and the military. >> on this vote, the yays are 316. the nays are 113. the bill is passed. >> that was just last week. there certainly wasn't the kind of showdown debates we are hearing right now or even a lot of attention, but also had an enormous cost to taxpayers. if you put the number in context that's an annual pentagon budget, just annual. it comes out to $7.6 trillion when you march it out over a decade which is, as you can see, far more than the $3.5 trillion progressives want for the safety net. a former obama adviser disc...

October of 2020, a pentagon report to congress detailed how domestic extremist actively recruit military personnel. we have a problem. the scope of which we don't fully understand. but democrats and republicans have asked the department for a definition of extremism. improved screening processes and status report an implementation on recommendations you still have not yet received it. we have not received it. wife is why just last week the house passed the 22 ndaa given you authorities to counter extremism. the -- citing overburden sew training and data collection requirements. not a single se...