dan goldman, a democrat, will speaker ofhe hsehe measure, based on calling those attacking the capitol hostages. mike johnson weighed in on the matter and said, i just hed ou goldman's censure resolution against elise stefanic. it's patently absurd. she's one of the best leaders and communicators in cesptionalb and the fact he would use censure toa political opponent is sentless. read mat punchbowlnews got com. >> this week watch campaign coverage as we're on the ground in new hampshire with presidential candidates in the final week of campaigning before the first in the nation primaryg arguments and watch voters meet the candidates and experience what it's like. >> charter is proud to be

recognized as one of the best internet providers and we're just getting started. bu miles of new infrastructure to reach tse who need it most. >> charter communicaonpports-spe other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. host: welcome to today's washington journal. we're let's start with the poll we mentioned on the american dream. this is what they asked, of those who said the percentage who say the americanue, this ise now between september of 2010 which is in blue and january 2024 current whichrcentage wentm 50% to 27% that said it still holds true. those that said it never ld8%. and those who said that yes, it

once held a true but does not anym to 52%. xnthe personage whol held true was -- went down 221%. the age group went from 48 to 24% and most optimistic being the 65 plus age group saying it still held to. we are taking your calls this morning on that. here is the other thing that i found interesting. it's the american dream now costs $3.4 million.

including two kids, a house and a car, than most make in a lifetime. the american dream now costs $3.4 million. common milestones include marriage, to be a kids, homes, health care,arthe cost of raisin the averagfe is now■eo $800,000. you can see -- you may not be able to read the numbers, but these are the numbersof went inh the average cost of a wedding and engagement ring. see there are things

like the average cost needed to retirethe cost of a funeral, $7. they also put in cost of pet care. itrly $68,000. wonder what you think about that. it's we willcalls and the numbee regional this time. you can always send us a text message as well or reach us on social media. there is a government funding deadline happening on friday and a bipartisan agreement reached to temporarily extend to

march. here isenate majority leader chuck schumer who was on the i yesterday and he warned house republicans not to derail the agreement. [video clip] >> e hard ght is demanding that the speaker walk away from the agreement that the four corners made on the appropriations top lines. it is simplyhe goes to show youw incapable they are. if their tactics approved one thing, it is that bullying almost never not working for them. it did not work during pda shutdown threats and it will certainly not work now. hope both sides can continue working together to move forward and pve a goven the shutdown. host: that was chuck schumer

talking about the deadline. there would be a partial shutdown saturday, if that agreement did not go through. here is republican mitch mcconnell on the housefly yesterday voicing his support for the short-term deal. [video clip] >> they worked hard to reach an agreement for the current fiscal year. work continues to deler appropriations to the regular order. shutting down the it would intet this important progress. today, the senate will begin the passing a short-term extension to allow this word to continue. grateful that the speaker of the house was able to secure

rollouts on remains to be seen whether they will get serious on the responsibility to provide for the common defense. for three straight years, the president has turned in budget rets for funding america's armed forces. even a quick glance around the world afford to shortchange then and women who defend the u.s. and our interests. responsibility seriously. host: that was mcconnell. we are talking about the american dream. do you think it still holds? the american dream deferred. crisis might part -- might pose a problem for joe

biden. here is a part of what this article says. as many more people pay rent and save for starter homes, analysts are warning that affordability may be adding to issue than in years past. manyee negatively even though wage growth has been strong. and a recent survey, a placed second only to inflation, overall. we will gart with arthur in wintergarden, florida. caller: yes, ma'am. ierican dream can still be a reality,

but when it comes to a point of , if you try -- we are going to tax you. eventually, iividuals will6ying- he is going to wonder is it ■1 trying to keep his business open? that will hurt the american ea anything. host: do you think that people and business areve i believe the been overtaxed for use.

host:s go to diana, jersey. caller: is alive. i just had a daughter. i will you that is. the delayed and then getting out on their own. they have depended on us but financial and pandemics, stuff like that. she came out, went to to to be of years community college, decided she did not know what she wanted to do and was a little bit rebellious. she went into bartending. it was quite lucrative and she at 29, she returned to college and got her biology degree. and then she studied during the pandemic and taught herself norio science, calculus, all this stuff to get into med

school. this■

you have health care that you can buy in.he went on medicare y have a supplemental plan that the■they cover me, even though m not retired and actively on medicare. there is something to it that you need a good job with benefits. i just got done watching a hearing on fentanyl. where is the responsibility? where is it th the kids do not take drugs? they took one pilli have childry generation was the one who did drugs. host: let's move on to andy in st. paul, minnesota. caller: thank you for taking my call.

i appreciate her comment. my perspective is similar. i recently spent 20j#■ years gog to medical school now i am at a point where i have six-figure ■5. i am achieving the american dream as she defined it, but it is not possible for me. host: are you working as a doctor? caller: i am a clinician. my point is that i think previous generations including my parents do not see the financial on people likeql, who they assume have it together.

but we are all saddled debt. there is an intergenerational bias, and i want to approach thisi think there is a flipsideo that. that is all i have to let's talk to gwen in detroit. caller: good morning. the american dream. i am 72. is believe that you will be able to take care of yourself, take care of your , get a decent job, go to college, if you want or go to a ■t2ad school to learn a skill. those things tend to be far ou■ú

today. everything is high. i believe right now, the way the economy is set up not be that way, but it is that way because of the federal reserve. they have raised interest rates continuously. all at once, holland. it caused a lot of things to go up. right now, the interest rate is close to 2%. the fed said this year they mayo go down. right now it is frozen or they are leaving it alone.

i know president biden has nothing to do with the federal reserve, but the federal reserve should also be looking ooramerit big business. host: go ahead. caller: i think -- excuse me. because the federal reserve chairman is republican, this is another attack on biden onyx, and it is keeping the people absent atnt biden. host: you did mention the said s the fed is within striking distance. christopheå waller said he was becoming more confident that we are within striking distance of

the annual inflation goal of 2%. he said that the fed is on track to cut interest res later this year, as long as inflation does not pick up steam. it has fallen steadily sense and clocked in at an annual rate, according to the latest labor department data. çtom in michigan. good morning. thank you for taking my call. the american dream defiance opportunity. an opportunihave to get a good . it takes work and sacrifice to do that. employers with open arms are looking for people who not only work hard but get

customers. people struggling to save, i apologize. i travel a lot and the starbucks in the airport are packed with 30-year-olds and younger buying seven to eight dollar lattes. thethere because the opportunities are offered to all of us. those who do not take advantage of them, the outcome thank you. host: checking in obook, with inflation, pandemic a social strife, the nation is■qar from dream like the last few years. on an individual level, everybody can tune that out and still pursue what they can of their own dreams heavily . she is a text fm ndra saying

the dream is attainable if three working adults live together to keep a roof over their head■h sy purchase their own he. we will go back to the calls. boston, massachusetts. good morning. caller: good morning. i heard everybody, so i be quick. i think the american dream is dead. that is my personal opinion. all that is happeningrd for anye to get what they want, like a house, whether it is a condo or whatever. government, the economics is great. where are they going? i'm not including hawaii because that is outssive unemployment.

how do you say employment is loe unemployed and homeless?■ú i do not understand it. host: how is that working out for you? how are you doing? because eggs slowed down enough for me to get the help that i needed. so yes, i dream, but it took a major disaster. other than that, nobody could find■ me, struggling to save money. let's take a look at the

poll, some numbers broken down by income level. these are the numbers for those who belve that the american dream stillolds true for those making under 50,000 a year. ú between 50,000 to 100,000, 27% believe that. among those in the 100,000 plus household, that number is 33%. you can see it going up with income. oceanside, california. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. -ó% believe the american dream still holds true. we are living in american nightmare because of the biden administration,xm but that american dream was going strong under trump.

treat -- i believe that dream will come true in 2024. all these people are complaining about the american dream being gone. go ahead and vote for trump and make that erican dream come true. thank you for allowing me to talk. host: just wanted to ask about you personally. how are you doing? how have things changed for you? caller: i mean, let's face it. it has been hard. under this administration. host: but you are doing better financially three yea ago of co. i was doing better under trump that i was now. but now? no. "únot even close.

host: did clifford -- different mentionedormer president. win in iowa. [video clip] mr.know nikki haley in particular has counted on the democrat and liberals. that is what is hain people comd that are not republicans and it is artificially boosting her numbers here, although we ar■e stilading by know, i watched her speech last night and i heard it was inappropriate. bad for the party what she said. she came in third and she is not a particularly great candidate. lost to somebody who ate her by about 2.5 points. e people and really

have to get back to eating the democrats and not wasting a lot of time with these two. they are supported by some people that you do not want to have support. i will tell you. we had a veryking a speech. this is a nice crowd of people. p'driving in the snow coming i asked, will people show up? but they always show up. they love their country. we were talkingd how corrupt th. they my victory they are crooked and dishonest and they should have their licenses or whatever they have taken away.

they put on nikki at thir a dit third and they put on sanctimonious who came in second. host: a came pain pit. [video clip] >> republicans have lost the last seven out votes from americans. we should want to win but the new generational leader. we had to leave the negativity and baggage behind solutions for the future. another hard truth. i voted for president trump twwas honored to serve america and his administration. but rightly or wrongly, chaos follows.

you know i am right. chaos follows him. [applause] ■we cannot have a country in disarray and a world on fire and go through four more years of chaos. we will not survive a. 70% of americans have do not war trump/biden rematch. the majority of americansñ prest what they want. you have two people who spent trillions of dollars putting us in debt thatur never biden and trump both did that. then you go and look that we have all these issues

around the country and the world , and what are they both focused on? investigations, past issues, things that are not taking us forward. we can have more of the same or cime to change and move forward. i think our kids want that. i do not want my kids to grow up like this. host: we are talking about what you think about the ais it stil? how are you doing? ong themecan dream was attainable for me and my family becae were able to get a home before joe biden became presintit is a buyers ect just a seller's economy. is.

is is joseph on facebook saying, it is what you make it. you go get it and he worked hard for it. mark and westwood, new jersey. ■ff good morning. thank you for c-span. this is a subject that i think about a lot house before i turned 30 and that is how i built some wealth. now that i am a tired, i am getting by. i do not see my nieces or nephews in their 20's and 30's able to do the same. they pay unbelievable rent on tiny, shoebox apartments. joe biden is trying to bring back the franklin roosevelt that help the people and save the country but trump just wants to give more tax cuts to his billionaire buddies.

he just wants to gut the federal government. people come unfortunately in this country do not understand fascism.■ they have not looked into historugh to realize that when things get bad it either goes left where it goes right, and right is always a germany. this is where america is going. it is a sad day here. ho when you are talking about your nieces and nephews, what about their income? are they keeping pace? caller: they have advanced degrees. they are smarter and more educated than i ever was and 6#o not have great incomes. they have to be very careful with their money. i moved out of my parents house at 18 in the0's. i was able to have an apartment

and to go and do things come enjoy mye,ving f a house in my 20's. it is about policies. the governnt is the one that ÷4 it fair or unfair. ever since ronald reagan, they cap did in tax cuts to the people onnefits from the peoplee bottom. that is all trump is going to do. he talks a populist game, but it he would just give tax cuts to the rich and further impoverish this country. host: christina is in illinois. how do you pronounce the city? caller: deploying. -- forgive me. i have a satthe man he was justd

talking about his nieces and nephews, i have two grandchildren andand 26. neither of them chose to go to college. both of them are making well over $30 hour and both o them have wives. and both bought homes. am a dable■dwidoi am blind, and. but i see people complaining, but they are all lined up at mcdonald's and all going out and taking vacations. it is a matter of living within your means. plus years, i have watched the economy go up and i have watched it go down. it has nothing to do of presidee white house.

corporations -- the rule of america, people talk about gas prices being up so high. opec and everybody, all those guys are the ones who choose the gas prices. food prices and everything else. they are chosen by corporations. one last statement share. i do not do social media. just cannot figure it out, and i do not care to either. before i went blind, i)wif you r again that your life is bad, your life sucks, everything is bad, you are going to start believing it, whether it is true

or not. so, any time they get on there and they say something and have to say it three times, then you kn i host: we have this. saying personally,y erican dream came true. they are all successful and we get to spoil our grandchire i am free from wt,ree to do whi guess it depends on what yor dreams are and whether or not you can achieve them. falls, -- in idaho falls, idaho. that i pronounce that right? caller: yes. , i think the american dream depends on the individual person , what they want infor me, bac'i

bought a housei was paying rent0 a month. i was only making a little but then i bought a house after i started working in the mill in 1976. three years later, st mill close down. back then i was plant -- i was paying 19% intest. but i had to give the house up. i decidedleave out of youngstow. and i moved to utah. from there, i got jobs here and there. and then i got making $14

an hour. it depends on the, their possibility hat they can do. i was not a smart person schoole seen how everybody else was living, so i wanted to do better in nice. so i did better. i learned how to paint. i learned how to do a trade of my people can do anything that they want to do, if they want to do it. it is think that people are making them do drugs. people do drugs because they want to do drugs. i never did drugs my whole life. i hated it. i think too many people doing. so right)j, i'm doing good in life.

i would call it the american possibilities. host:let's go to santa fe, new mexico. caller: i believe the american dream is going fast for young people. the government is going more towards governance. the one world order -- they are pushing stuff that is not even real like thethere is a climatet it is not that that big of a problem that we cannot control. not this global new world order. our jobs are going to china. election -- he did not lose it. it was taken from him. everything is gog to china. the border is wide open and

drugs are coming in. there are a lot of people who get hooked on drugs. some people can say no, but others, if you have bad, you do what they do. they are damaging us but the gmo's. it is a sad world. ■everything is going bad. we need talk again. biden is crooked and his son is crooked. they are making with china, with russia, with are paying for this war. so, no. i do not see the market the way

it was. we are going backwards really fast. host: we got it. we heard the candidates. [video clip] >> hall scheduled earlier today and then this. i had the morning where usually candidates sleepn a little bit, but i thought, let's make use of that. ■hx?my don't we dip into south carolina and make anwe considere important. no happens, i'm

as republicans, itil be fair fo. i think all three those states will all happen over the next six important, but the tradition here with burst in the nation is something that is very significant. ■t■mi agreed to do a debate on on sunday. i'm the only candidate who agreed to come to new hampshire to debate. we have four candidates for onla basement campaign at this point. you as a voter deserve to have thcaid come up, answer your questions in forums like this, have a moderated debate where you go back andth. i think we have gone: away from,

let's let me --the decisions ana coverage determine what is going on. i do not think thatblican form f government. governor desantis didn't mention the debates. the new hampshire primary debate has been canceled. it was scheduled for tomorrow and has been canceled■ haley anp have declined the invitation. nikki haley said she would only de stage and he will not be, so they canceled the debate. back to william. caller: been listening for years. the american dream is based on what you can achieve yourself. when you vote against your own self, it is evident that anybodu

it? one other thing i have to say about the subject. why is all the news always talkingut what is going to hurt biden when i am looking at less than three dollars worth of gas? why are we not talking about congress is not going to pay -- that is not going to pass one why is anyone can think that the congress is responsible for passing bills? i'm retired from the oil industry. i know the real price of oil is

and it is crazy. have a good day. host: good morning. caller: good morning.■sc? commes from early. he talked about his nieces and nephews and how he was able to buy hissubsequent homes at an ey age. he was right on target saying that the american dream died with the reagan administration. as soon as this became a corporate state, the usa under reagan,an dream died. i know your audience tends to skew very old, so i want to whoe american dream is still alive, i own my he talked about her daughters having degrees in medical school and all that. tell me about how your dollar --

how your daughter who pays -- what hap that first, corporations were able to buy up andes. the older generation listening to this, when he went infrom a t complex or from a mom and pop apartment where a couple units or something? whence is unaffordable because all of these are corporate owned. since the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, somehow or anotr, w■nall street was allowed to get in on the housing market$ and hedge funds and private equity and all those types of organizations -how many people who own their own home in their 60's, 70's and 80's, did you

have with an all-cash offer to buy or home? that is what people are left dealing with in the housing market. it is over $400,000 for an average home in this country. if you competed with somebody on wall street -- who are you saying are making those offers on the houses? caller: talk to any real estate @=■5agent and they wl tell you. it is corporate america and hedge funds and private equity. you want to put a bid on a house and somebody swoops in and says we have an all-cash offer? if■ it is not■ froa corporion, y firm, it is somebody who has generational wealth, whose mommy

and daddy are giving not all fo, even white folks like me have generational wealth. i'm tired of hearing that it is only blacks who do not have generational wealth. there is nobody to help our generation put■ 20 to $30,000 more on a house. the fact that you ask who■ is hs -- who has the cash offers tells me that you are uninformed about the market. host: this is what it is saying. the share of black people who say it has been to -- it is compared with a 22 point drop. 22% of those with a high school degree say that the american dream still holds true, down 25 point from 2010, compared with

40% postgraduate degree. jan olive branch, mississippi. caer i think the american gene is alive and well. donald trump raised $8 million in one week. one person conveys that much money in one week for committing a crime and they have money to throw away on a person convicted were trying to be convicted of a crime? are you going to say the american dream is dead? it is not dead. the person saying it is dea is dead.

good morning. caller: yes. good morning, ma'am. i am not part of any political organization. i think that the biggest problem right now is not one particular person or persons. i think -- no offense to you it is -- fairness is one of the most important thingi believe ts people who spew the lines every day on both sides is the biggest st now in america. now, is it the only problem?

0ono. i'm just saying that some of theseeople need to be weeded out and they need to get unbiased speak for america. host: how is this related to the american dream? you know something? everything is related and the american dream is sbecause progs being held up because i that one of the biggest problems right now for the americanp drem and everything to unfairness spread by the press. thank you and you have a ni host: let's go to new york. caller: hello.

so, my thing about the american dream, i feel like there are a lot of people at theet into america. there was this one youtube video that i watched about it about into pit -- withrting where peoa and the people taking fights from africa to europe and all the way to columbia and crossing the border. it is really crazy to me, how people are trying to come -- people are saying■x hold and there are so many p trying to get into america still from these countries. the definition of e dream is a e topic. the american dream and my eyes is being able to live comf happily, and i feel like people are stillachieve th. i think it does still hold.

the;) in that sense of the to quote my friend, jenna, i how is that working out for you and what age group are you in? caller: i am 19 years and currently i think it is working out very well. host: are you optimistic? caller: yes. i would say i am i'm really -- for me, i think my future is optimistic. my american dream still holds for me. i think the people around me, host: michael agrees with that and says t pof of the american dream is ave and thriving at our borders. people are risking their lives to come to america but nobody is risking their life to leave for a better life becausist.

allen is. caller: good morning. thank you very much for great work. since i have been a high school student in the 70's, it occurred to me that the american dream has be s centuries by our open frontier and the fact that we were first conquering a continent that had free resourcesha tapped yet. we continue grow into new areas. i thought to myself, once the frontier closes, people are not going to want to like the reagan and post-reagan as -- eras.

that is achappened, but what the done cleverly is easing the mechanism of medialess possiblet accurate infhem make wise choicn elections. increasingly dysfunctional since the doctrine ended in the 1980's under reagan. that led to the siloing of public opinion. they never learn anything new. allowed 1% of wealth holders tontroversial ideasbout meeting reforms. zsometimes the only way of getting that through is to make sure tha of average people making editorial comments can getthis problem is becoming

exacerbated. at■ñ an age by they are spewing false information and confuse the public to make it harder for democracy to functiowe are not e informed consent or a democracy that can make our solutions in practical way. people will become so disillusioned with the efficacy of voting thatprophecy. the first task is consent and the second isnvince people that the only solution is to get out and be counted. and then reforms are possible. host: good morning. good morning. when i was listening to the guy calling in from new jersey, i

relate to him. it sounds like we are about the same age. i am 63 years old and rent was cheap. i left my home at 18 years old and i moved to florida. i lived at the beach with some roommates and we paid $100 a we lived a block away from the ocean. you cannot do that today. what i' reagan -- i agree with this guy from jersey. things have changed so much. our lifestyle -- it is the cost of living that keeps going. it is called capitalism. up,cocktail said she save mone. people of -- i lived in apartment. it was not kept up very well but we stayed there because it was so cheap. jlife was pretty affordable lowd

old-fashioned. young people today you do not like to save money. they■j■rshe saved and she starto invest in stocks. she did well. she di just my sister, her and i. she was working really hard and he had one year of college. people like her could survive back tn. things started to change going into the 80'i will look back ano much on mr. reagan. things got greedy. ■=. corporations started getting more involved and all sorts of things. taxes have gone up.

■■@for regular folks and then te were always wealthy people around. andthere is so much wealth thats been squeezed from the lower classes and goingct■@ up into te this is from kent on facebook who says the american dream ■.bphas enthey stole yourt you a prty package. sthae countr i owards the ideals of our founders and i believe in the drealouisiana. caller: i went to purdue, so i i am 80 years old and i was raised by parents the great

, 1933. my dad had something that i always lived by. if you cannot afford it, do not buit was 14 years before they hd me because they cannot afford me. i did a fellowship. i was flying airplanes. i retired and owned everything. when i was making the big bucks, i paid for everything, so my pal paid for. everything was paid for and i do have much expenses while i r here and enjoying what i did way back. my parents learned some lessons in 1930, the great depression. so if you wanted to get there at

buy it. and before he retired, owned everything. own everything. host: north dakota, good morning. caller: i am in the land of the free and i live in one of the best states. you can easily go from being a high school students g job in ta area. we are looking for people in the oil industry because it is booming. it$ do not biden's relations are doing to stifle it. we need to go back to being energy dependentaupendent. we learned a lot the last few years. you cannot trust the shipping of some other country. back to the american dream. you can easily afford a home in a small town. you do not have to live in a married, have your children. abu

we live in a safe community. we have small towns that are thriving. industry in minnesota because of ridiculous things that are being put in place from the and they are chasing away industry. there are about $5 billion with of industry moving to north dakota because of the bad policies of the democrats. if we are going to be potent -- if be pointing at republicans, that same finger will be pointing atrx democrats. it cannot o being --%ó in the

first part of your life with a lavish lifestyle. if that is what you■ are expecting, you outside your means. not bad toddle class. i grew up on a farm. we grew our food. 4dwe saved money. host: here ■0 host: one mark in greenville, tennessee, good morning. caller: good morning. you are our favorite hosting look9ç fthe american dream is sl

alive. it's what you mt li t move to a state where you can be free and achieve the american dream. california to the east coast and make your dream whatever it is. we are trying to live our dream here. when our parents started anythie are trying to get to the point they were. host:■e■■h c-span gives you a fw

seat how issues are debated and decided with no com■ary interru. c-span, your unfiltered view of( government. we are on the ground in new hampshire with presidential candidates in the final week of campaigning before the first in ry.

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