What Gov. Josh Shapiro's budget pitch could do for Pennsylvania's rural communities
The governor’s budget proposal would give rural areas a boost to invest in housing, address gaps in health care, and market the outdoor landscape.
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The governor’s budget proposal would give rural areas a boost to invest in housing, address gaps in health care, and market the outdoor landscape.
Hostage, which is what the republicans are doing. >> what is extraordinary about what the republicans are doing, it is in such stark contrast to how they behaved under the former president in terms of the debt ceiling. >> absolutely. they raise the debt ceiling, if i recall correctly, three times under trump. and by the way, we raised -- we raised our national debt by something like $8 trillion over that period. but it's not just trump. we have done it with republicans. we've done wit democrats. that is what you do. and let's be clear. everybody should know this. this is not a budget issue. we...
Correctly, three times under trump, and by the way, we raised our national debt by something like a trillion dollars over that period. but it's not just trump, we have done it with republicans, we have done it with democrats, that's what you do. and let's be clear, everybody should know this. this is not a budget issue. we are not arguing here which we should be spending next year. it is simply just paying the bills that republicans voted for last year and in previous years. we are paying off our debt, and when you are the largest economy in the world, that is what you do. >> if you make a dea...
For the first time on the mez. why are we now? >> i'm not really surprised at this moment. during negligent aches somebody walks out. i want americans to realize the ball is in president biden's court. we gave him a plan several months ago. campaigning from a basement may work but on this particular budget issue we need leadership from the white house. the far left is pulling him left, left, left. afraid of the work requirements. i think most of us think that's reasonable. >> harris: what democrats have said in the last 24 hours is no to work requirements accusing the gop of being unrealistic....
Clear political objective to a lot of the things that this small contingent of let's say five or six want. one of them is this committee that my understanding is that the budget issue, they wanted it to be basically comiserate to what the january 6th committee had. and think about that. i think a lot of this concern in this group about the doj and the fbi is frankly based on conspiracy, and it's based on stuff that is floating around on the internet much of which has no basis in fact and coming at a time when many are under investigation, and the aim here is to put it on par with the january 6...