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signed into law on friday. president biden also announcing in just the last hoursh more vaccine split in the u.s. ensures the u.s. will have more than enough supply to vaccinate the entire population. here's president biden moments ago in the latest push. we're now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every american adult by the end of may, month earlier than anyone expected. today i'm directing, my hhs team, to produce another 100 million doses and perform another of the 100 million of the vaccine. this is wartime effort, we need maximum flexibility. there's always a chance ...

>> the president's spokesperson almost gleeful. joining me now, dean baker, author of "rigged, how the rules of the modern economy were structured to make the rich richer." dean, you're a budget nerd and i've counted on you for budget commentary for years. i can't decide between two things. is this a standard republican budget or something different? it's somewhere in between. this is an extreme version of a republican budget. it's very mean spirited, they're going after programs that help lower income people. this has been done before. i'm old enough to remembering are. he did a lot of things...

Fed so they do better in school. guess what? there's no demonstrable evidence they're actually doing that. there's no dem men straonstrabl they're doing better. >> the president's spokesperson almost gleeful. jhi joining me now, dean baker, author of "rigged, how the rules of the modern economy were structured to make the rich richer." dean, you're a budget nerd and i've counted on you for budget commentary for years. i can't decide between two things. is this a standard republican budget or something different? . it's somewhere in between. this is an extreme version of a republican budget. it...

There's no demonstrable evidence they're actually doing that. there's no demonstrable results they're doing better. >> the president's spokesperson almost gleeful. joining me now, dean baker, author of "rigged, how the rules of the modern economy were structured to make the rich richer." dean, you're a budget nerd and i've counted on you for budget commentary for years. i can't decide between two things. is this a standard republican budget or something different? . it's somewhere in between. this is an extreme version of a republican budget. it's very mean spirited, they're going after progra...

Markets in an absolutely downward spiral. that's why -- [ inaudible ] if i were the republican, i'd say c'mon, i'm a budget nerd. that's where i started. it works. it was a bipartisan mechanism. we have done this before. we can do it again. >> jamie: let robert weigh in. equal time. robert? >> thanks. the interesting piece is if it doesn't pass, it won't pass because of a republican vote in the house of representatives. it will be contrary to the republican leadership articulated that they want it to pass. which means the 80 class of freshman, the tea party movement has taken control of the re...