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Quality and affordable for literally every child in america. you already talked about universal prek for 3 and 4-year-olds and making health care affordable by expanding medicare to include hearing. this is beneficial to hundreds of thousands of my constituents. in fact, all of my constituents when you think about climate change and how it impacts everybody on the planet. this is something democrats did by unifying and of course, i got to give house progressives credit through insisting that we pass both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the larger build back better act we're able to get ...

Recall chesa boudin now. a big step forward for president biden's again to today. democrats passing the 1. 9 trillion dollar economic agenda including more money for child care, home health care, obamacare subsides, universal prek and more but it's anyone's guess what will happen when the senate has its say. joining me to discuss, and former republican congressman charlie dent and analyst kirsten powers, the author of the new amazing book called "saving grace." welcome to both of you. kirsten, after months after wrangling democrats are onto the next step with a bill that would

Has gone up 1,300%. we have seen that the top 10 wealthiest people in the country own 90% of the stocks. so the bill is about how we get money in the pockets of people. universal preschool. one year less of child care that a family has to pay. money in their pockets. capping child care at 7% of your income. money in your pockets. helping seniors with glasses and hearing aids. money in their pockets. a tax cut finally for working people, and not for the top 1%. but for families. that is money in their pockets. if we don't recognize in this chamber and down the hall that china is a looming threa...

Whether the delay in passing his economic agenda led to the democrats defeat in virginia. >> people want us to get things done. it should have passed before election day. but i am not sure that i would be able to have changed the number of very conservative folks that turned out in the red districts that were trump voters. but maybe. maybe. >> some democrats in the senate were much less cautious about their assessment of yesterday's vote. >> look, if we had been able to deliver infrastructure and reconciliation in mid-october he could have sold universal prek, affordable child care, infrastruc...

Are interested in but for a limited time frame so the extended child tax credit, for example, extended for only a year the affordable care act extended in the essentially the subsidies or assistance for that, extended to 2025 prek for 6 years and not permanent. the strategy being, okay, if the programs prove popular with voters then it's going to be very difficult future congress not to continue to fund them. eric: yeah, the administration has been touting the plan, talking about medicare, how it helps with child tax credits. if you're taking care of an elderly parent, for example, that gives ...