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armies of lobbyists and lawyers? or does it work for all the people. now the house of representatives is about to show us the worst of government for the rich and powerful. the house is about to vote on a budget deal, a deal negotiated behind closed doors, that would let traders on wall street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system. this is a democracy, and the american people didn t elect us to stand up for citigroup. they elected us to stand up for all the people. that s the bugle signaling charge. today the white house scrambled to contain the fod. just minutes before the scheduled vote, the white house took the dangerous move of taking direct aim at the warren wing of the party by declaring and campaign contributions, opening up the ÷÷ñaúfloodgates. first you give the keys to the bank and then you bail the banks out. we are not having that. i think the vote today shows that, shows ....
Against in october of 2013, 58 against, 37% in favor. but still, senator, plurality of americans say don t raise the debt limit. they look at the $32 trillion figure and can t believe it. i remember the heady days of the end of the clinton administration going back again, where the debt was $5.5 trillion and they were thinking of paying it off. we don t have to worry about that anymore. we should look, we can balance the budget. when i was governor of florida i walked in with a big budget deficit and florida had not lived in it means 20 years, we balanced every year. we paid off a third of the state debt so we can do this. people do it every day. they say this is my income, what i m going to spend, and i want to get out of debt. don t we all try to do that, we all try to get out of debt and live in our means? your government should be doing the same thing and it can if you elect the people that care about the budget. john: i don t know if we could ever get out from behind ....
Includes as you mentioned covid relief dollars as well as ukraine aid. that s an important piece and time and time again we have heard where republicans now want to condition ukraine aid, we can t have that. roughly 10% increases in defense spending and nondefense spending according to the wall street journal, will set up a separate fight about the debt limit. obviously the debt limit is an issue, and times where i hope we don t get in position like we did with the failed experiment in october of 2013, in the words of the great philosopher, lebowski, did not end well. a lot of disagreement and the government will shut down if they do not find the way forward ....
Done it. his own cratering poll numbers, the latest abc news poll shows only 37% of americans approve of his job performance. a whopping 55% disapprove. only 17% say the economy is better under president biden. 54% say it s worse. a fox business poll finds 31% of americans are satisfied with the way things are going. that s the lowest figure of happy people since october of 2013 when it was just 26%. the associated press is not mincing words. a state of disunity, funk and peril. republican congressman lee zeldin with this advice for biden. we re not looking for you to spin what we all see right in front of us with our own eyes. we have identified the problem. ....
Had begun to draw these lines which we saw on january 6th. we had adam kinzinger on earlier, and he said there s such a sense of tribalism that we won t get out of it unless politicians are willing to stand up and do things that may not be popular in their own self-interest. what would that take? it was such an important point he made. one of the things we heard from former president george w. bush over the weekend, one of the things he called out was a disdain for pluralism. what i thought when i heard that, that didn t happen overnight. donald trump is the center of the phenomenon, but you have to connect the dots that go back a few years. as i write in the book, the first day i came back to work in the united states was the day in october of 2013 when the government shut down and it shut down in effect because of a kind of political pageant on the part of some leaders like senator ted cruz who decided he was going to advance his personal interests at the cost of the united state ....