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Of jobs available to them and for those families it is sure as heck an emergency. >> this is a budget issue. the emergency spending is a term of art on capitol hill i don't have to tell you that allows the government to spend without subsequent offsets to balance the budget out. do you think -- >> things like unemployment insurance are probably the last things that should go. it is counter cyclical. it's emergency energy into the economy because people spend it right away and comparison with tax cuts for ceos and other of the wealthiest americans, it's far more important and far more justified...

Difficult economic times, as you know? so what happens here? what goes away to provide more money for education? i just want to gauge how deeply you and your colleagues are thinking about this. >> well, one of the things that has been proposed in california is that state spending on higher education be set at ten% of the total state budget which is actually well below what it was at the heyday of higher education in california in the 1960s. and what governor schwarzenegger has proposed is cutting money out of prisons to support that. >> right, right. >> but there are a variety of other differe...

Now, there's a soiled argument to be made that it belongs in the bill because when you regularize immigrants they pay more taxes and, therefore, it's a budget issue, but no one really knows how the parliamentarian is likely to rule. you'll recall in february she ruled against including a federal $15 minimum wage in the covid relief bill. of course, if chuck schumer, majority leader doesn't like her ruling, he could always fire her. that's when then senate leader trent lott did in 2001 when he got in the way of the bush tax cuts. but does anyone believe that the dems are going to do that? what ...

People that applying for the program. the democrats have a solution. they could pass immigration reform through budget reconciliation that needs a 51-vote majority and they even seem to have the support of joe manchin. oh, wait, there's someone else i need to introduce you to. meet elizabeth mcdonagh, a former immigration lawyer who has served as a little known but at times hugely power official in the united states senate because the only way a permanent fix to the dreamers' problem is going to happen by skirting the filibuster, by reconciliation, is if the senate parliamentarian elizabeth mc...

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