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Helping to make san francisco the greenest big city in america but we couldn't do it without you. thank you, san francisco. gracias, san francisco. -thank you. -[ speaks native language ] let's keep making a differene together. now to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. president biden announcing new
Negotiations? >> enormously, stephanie. how does president biden cut deal with republican lawmakers when many of his voters believe he's not even the legitimate president? they show more than half self-identified republicans nationally believe biden was not nationally elected. when they go home and look at their voters and what they believe, it makes it very hard for them to do that. that's one factor. the second is senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, he has a knack of unifying governments against signature initiatives against presidents. it worked well for him under president obama. he's ...
Behavior. >> sahil, what is her end goal? what do democrats do with that? >> it doesn't look like she's ready to move off her support for the filibuster, stephanie. in the near term that leaves democrats with the simple option of using this budget reconciliation option to bypass the filibuster. that can only be done, as you know, on policies of taxing and spending. that means president biden's $trillion dollar agenda can go through only if that remains in place. but beyond that, voting rights cannot get through unless it's abolished. no republican will play with s-1, also known as hr-1 and joh...
Where republicans are, which is about $200 million -- or $200 billion in new spending, which is big big difference here. and also they said the pay for it, that is something republicans, capito and biden have not agreed on. president biden wants to stick to his guns on the corporate tax hike that was in the original plan. that is not what republicans want to do. they don't want to touch their signature 2017 tax cuts that happen. they're looking at user fees and repurposing the money already allocated from covid to pay for this and that's one of the biggest issues for democrats and republicans ...
Said would be revolutionary, he didn't need facebook and twitter, they've now shut that down. how exactly is this guy so powerful? >> it's because of the voters, his support. >> not enough of them got him elected. >> right. very, very true. but republicans are still worried about that, right? president trump, despite the former president trump, despite the fact that he lost in 2020 kind of across the board as the leader of the party, he holds that power because he's promised to go into these primaries to kind of pick off especially the people who voted to either impeach or convict him during h...