we were taking up in the congress, if we were taking up the childcare pieces of this and the home health care pieces of it, it would be historic. it would be historic, big. children learn, parents earn, caring for loved ones at home and respecting those who do so. the second piece on health care, this one is particularly meaningful to me, because of the affordable care act. the affordable care act has been expanded to make it stronger, but also to include the people who were not covered in the states who did not expand medicaid. we expanded the affordable care act to enable those families to have access to the affordable care act. if that were the only thing we were doing in this legislation, it would be transformational -- transformative and cause for celebration. on the health side, many aspects to it. but that one is -- makes a drastic difference. then when we go to the third bucket, climate, well, as one who has, when i was speaker the first time, the climate issue has been my issue, but at that time, i formed a select committee on climate and had good things with president bush, in terms

home health care, which can be an early warning system to serious health problems, can be an early warning system to keep people out of nursing homes, keep people out of hospitals, thus saving society billions of dollars. we pay those people who do this critical work. what did she mention? $10.50 an hour which does not amount to much. the burden of this work incidentally falls disproportionately heavily on women and immigrants. host: while we have you here, because you are a longtime observer of washington and particular what has played out over the past weeks and months over the bill back better agenda, you have seen a lot of this go on -- how does this compare to other efforts by democratic presidents to pass initiatives? guest: this one is stuffed with a lot of different moving parts, which gives legislators on capitol hill the opportunity to pick off pet peeves and because congress is so divided and because the republicans are refusing to give any help on passing anything, it falls on a divided democratic caucus, which is why really there has been so much paralysis around getting these

that we were taking up in the congress, if we were taking up the child care pieces of this and home health careieces of it, it would be historic, big. nearly a trillion dollars. children learning, parents earning, caring for our loved ones at home and respecting those who do so. second piece on the health care this one is particularly meaningful to me because of the affordable care act. the affordable care act has been expanded of course to make it stronger but also to include the people who were not covered in the states that did not expand medicaid. we don't expand medicaid. we expand the affordable care act to enable those folks to, those families to have access to affordable care act f that were the only thing we were doing in this legislation, it would be transformational, trans firmtive around cause for celebration. so on the health side many aspects to it but that one make as drastic difference. when we go to the third bucket climate, as one who has, when i was speaker first time, the climate issue, well for a long time has been my issue but at that time i formed a select committee on cl

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we were taking up in the congress, if we were taking up the childcare pieces of this and the home health care pieces of it, it would be historic, big, nearly a trillion dollars. children learning, parents earning, caring for loved ones at home, and respecting those who do so. second piece, on the health care, this one is particularly meaningful to me because of the affordable care act, the affordable care act has been expanded, of course, to make it stronger, but also to include the people who were not covered in the states that did not expand medicaid. we don't expand medicaid, we expand the affordable care act to enable those folks to have -- those families to have access to the affordable care act. if that were the only thing we were doing in this legislation, it would be transformational. it's transformative and cause for celebration. on the health side, there are many aspects to it. but that one makes a drastic difference. and then when we go to the third bucket, climate, well, when i was speaker, the first time, the climate issue for a long time has been my flagship issue, but at that t

we were taking up in the congress, if we were taking up the child care pieces of this and the home health care pieces of it, it would be historic. big. nearly $1 trillion. children learning, parents earning, caring for our loved ones at home and respecting those who do so. second piece on the health care, this one is particularly meaningful to me because of the affordable care act. the affordable care act has been expanded, of course, to make it stronger and also to include the people who were not covered in the states that department did not expand medicaid. we do not expand medicaid. we expand the affordable care act to enable those folks -- those families to have access to the affordable care act. if that were the only thing we were doing in this legislation, it would be transformative and cause for celebration. on the health side, there are many aspects to it, but that one makes a drastic difference. and then when we go to the third bucket, climate, well, as one who has -- when i was speaker first time, the climate issue -- well, for a long time has been my flagship issue. at that time, i

bigger and better access to health care, home health care for seniors and for americans with disabilities. i've been serving here in the senate for just over a decade. i've never seen a moment as encouraging as this when we are on the very verge of delivering significant expansions in support for the things that key families unite. if we get this we'll get the h health, the education for their families. >> you've been there a long time now? >> this is to back climate change, and as our country goes to 26, this is a decision to make. >> how is today different than yesterday. you have manchin and sinema. yes, you have progressives on board, but you don't have the votes you need. was the rick this morning for the president to come up to the hill to make the case? did it pay off? and how is today dramatically different? >> today is different because i've heard from both senators, manchin and sinema, that they believe this is a framework that they can work with, that this is a basis for us moving forward, and obviously speaker pelosi and the president decided that they are in a position to go

investments in home health care for the elderly and disabled support that will reduce health care costsich is an existential threat. and remember president biden is ten months into his term. he's fully committed to working to achieve paid leave for the american people and to add vision and dental care to medicare. and he has time to pursue these additional programs which are also important. >> you say, madam secretary, that the former obama administration treasury secretary larry summers, a man you know well is wrong, your word wrong, that the u.s. could lose control of inflation. but it was months ago that president biden said this thwas temporary. now you say inflation, correct me if i'm wrong, may not subside until the second half of next year. clearly, madam >> well, i stild still would say it's temporary, but i don't mean just a matter of a month or two. although monthly inflation rates have substantially declined from where they were just four or five months ago. but what we're really seeing is the impact of the covid pandemic is sevi severely disrupted econ activity. it's hugely

were taking up in the congress, if we were taking up the child care pieces of this and at the home health care a trillion dollars. children learning, parents earning. parents and loved ones at home and respecting those who do so. the second piece on health care, this one is particularly meaningful to me because of the affordable care act, the affordable care act has been expanded of course to make it stronger but also to include the people who were not covered in the states that did not expand medicaid. we don't expand medicaid, we expanded the affordable care act to enable those folks to have access to affordable care. if that were the only thing we were doing in this legislation it would be transformational. it's transformative and cause for celebration. so on the house side, there are many aspects to it but that one makes a drastic difference. then when we go to the third bucket, when i was the speaker first time on the climate issue, for a long time it's been my flagship issue but at that time i formed a select committee on the climate, and we got good things in terms of president bush wit

in the workplace, transformed because of childcare and universal pre-k, the child tax credit, home health care workers. men benefit too, but largely women are those caregivers. so not only to free up women to , go into the workplace for their own professions and interests, but also to recognize the work that women do in their -- that women do in providing that health care issues that , relate to medical leave and the rest. the build back better is three baskets. it is climate, which we spent some time talking about already. health, job security, and more responsibility. healthcare and the issues that relate to the affordable care act, medicare and medicaid, and family care, as i mentioned. whatever we do, it will be transformative. it will produce results. and i am grateful to our president for saying i want to pass the bipartisan legislation on infrastructure, but i will not confine my vision for the future to what can be in that bill. hence we need the build back better. in addition to that, again let , me just say that is a very important jobs bill. it is a jobs bill and a bill about our ch

they want to expand home health care so that people are not forced out of their homes into nursing homes. they want to expand medicare so that elderly people can have dental care, can have hearing aids, can have eyeglasses. they want us to address the existential threat of climate change, and i'll tell you what else they want. they are sick and tired of the rich getting richer and not paying their fair share of taxes, and they want this reconciliation bill to be paid for by doing away with the loopholes that the wealthy and large corporations enjoy. so we have the american people very, very strongly on our side. we've got the president of the united states on our side. got 96% of the members of the democratic caucus in the house on our side. we got all but two senators at this point in the democratic caucus on our side. we're going to win this thing. we're going to pass a strong infrastructure bill to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, and we're going to pass the reconciliation bill. >> and i want to get to one of those two senators that is not with you right now, senator sinema as we

and so what ended up happening was that we engaged home health care workers to help us take care of our mother. and it was only because of those tireless home care workers that were with her at her bedside during the night so i could sleep, providing essential care, and it was only because of them that my family and i could rest somewhat easier knowing that mom had the help and the resources that she needed around her. i can tell you quite honestly that we would not have made it through those months had we not had the benefit of home health care workers. i have to tell you, again, firsthand, watching a parent or a loved one suffer is hard enough. but those workers and they were all women, i might add, who came into our homemade it just a little bit easier for me and for my sister and the rest of our family, knowing that she had a team of hard working caregivers by her side through her sickness. we know homeworkers have been on the front line and heard a lot about it until the pandemic and i don't know if we heard much about home care workers but they cared tore our population and put th

when we talk about the proposals they may seem abstract, but for many americans health care and especially programs like homeife and death. my guest is one of those people. in 2016 he was diagnosed with als. since his diagnosis he has dedicated his life to fighting for health care for all americans and last year interviewed then candidate biden about medicare for all. >> so my question is do you see a future where health insurance is no longer tied to employment? will america ever have a single payor system where health care is guaranteed as a human right? >> health care guaranteed as a human right but taking away the right to have a private plan if you want a private plan i disagree with. >> i spoke with him earlier today about his struggle with a.l.s., his political journey, and inspiring activism chronicled in the new documentary film "not going quietly." was there a moment when you were diagnosed with als where you thought, i have to focus on my health now, on myself? i simply can't pull off doing what i've always done. how tough has it been to manage with this devastating illness and still fight the goo

funding for climate programs, paid leave, child at home health care, affordable housing, and a number of other items. a number of house democrats are meeting this morning to talk about the way forward on the bill. we are expecting to have some news on the measure shortly. live coverage of the house when members gavel in here on c-span2 >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. funded by these television companies and more, including charter communications. >> broadband is a force for empowerment. that's why charter has invested billions. building infrastructure, upgrading technology, empowering opportunity in communities big and small. charter is connecting us. >> charter communications supports c-span as a public service. along with these other television providers. giving us a front row seat to democracy. >> c-span on the go, watch the day's biggest political events live or on demand any time, anywhere on our new mobile video app, c-span now. access top highlights. listen to c-span radio, and new podcasts for freevment download c-span now today. host: republican congressman t

health care staff. in new york state alone, roughly 34,000 health care workers have lost or quit their jobs over the mandate. that includes over 20,000 home health care workers. now governor kathy hochul is trying to spin the thinking the shrinking of her states health care workers is good news -- fantastic. our health care sector was already stretched thin, we've heard this for years and now it's understaffed. now some hospitals are operating shifts with skeleton staffs, pun intended to. who knows how many lives will be lost or adversely impacted because of the shortages? will never know. and it's not just people's lives that are at stake but their safety as well. the president of the chicago police chief's union an incredibly terrifying warning one what will happen when the vaccine mandate goes into effect on friday, teachers and school employees also face the choice of getting vaccinated or getting fired. about eight thousands new york city teachers have been placed on leave. to biden's speechwriters, they are uninformed and artisan. >> vaccination requirements should not be another issue that divides us. school board members, religiou

benefits were going to work. working americans in the form of child tax cuts or child care, home health care paid leave a free community college, things that would really reduce prescript, rejected things that would really make an impact for people who are suffering on the bottom. half of the class divide in america, and so the fight is over whether those were doing quite well. feel any empathy or solidarity with those who are not doing well. what is an acceptable investment now? is there any wiggle room given where we are now, or are we at the bare minimum in what joe biden has put forward? really, when you take the priorities and you just add them up a, you know, center sanders put out a 6 trillion dollar proposals. that if you really, really are serious about climate change over the next 10 years and doing something about it, child care, free community college reducing prescription drugs, you go down the line of all of the benefits in this bill. and you say you have them up and you want to do them for real. it's 6 trillion dollars. now obviously center centers is also a pragmatist. he, he

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you have to talk about home health care and health care expansions and prekindergarten and go out there and do that for basically the next year. yeah, i think you want to talk about these with the same language and values. this is all about helping the middle class, trying to help people try to get to the middle class. working families, the wealthiest companies and individuals are paying for it so yeah, that's all under one umbrella. you want to have the opportunity tactically lawrence to show we're able to bring together republicans and talk about the infrastructure piece that is easier messaging. still important. can't take it for granted. democrats are in a deficit now with most of america. i think most of what they know with the democrats are arguing about it. is it $2 trillion? is it $3 trillion? really important program elements and there is plenty of time to do that. that's what the white house should make the corner stone of the next year make sure you go to every hamlet in america and speaking in great detail about how people are benefitted and who paid for those benefits that

the house is talking about right now, the policies around child care and pre-kindergarten and home health care all include robust steps to increase the wages of those care workers. these are some of the lowest page workers in the economy. they don't have access to paid leave or other benefits. we are seeing right now those sectors of the economy are struggling. other low-wage jobs are seeing raises. it is hard to have the child care workers. we will make progress supporting low-income families and wage workers to raise the wages and lower costs for families. we have to keep in mind there are a lot of steps inside this package that will support families across the income distribution. >> heather, thank you for joining us. hopefully you will come back and talk about more as we know more about the final bill. heather is a member of the white house council. joining me now is gwenn moore. a member of the house ways and means committee. congress member moore, good morning. thank you for being with us. >> good morning. i really enjoyed listening to heather. i appreciate your set up as well for this c

i mean, a couple hundred million dollars for home health care workers. free community college.ank you. david, thanks to you as well. thank you both. >>> up next, we are on vote watch. that's right. vote watch in october. because the latest on a heated hearing happening right now into arizona's audit of the 2020 election. we just saw a pretty eye-watching moment, sitting congressman just said we do not know who won the 2020 presidential election. >>> also this morning, some new details about how former president trump pressured the justice department to try and overturn the results of the 2020 election. blns>>> a hearing on arizona's controversial audit of the 2020 election. two weeks ago the audit confirmed president biden's win in that state. it did not find any fraud. moments ago the arizona republican congressman would not admit that in a heated exchange. >> the gentleman yield, you asked if i would respond. happy to respond. >> by all means, to you accept this audit which showed that joe biden won't and indeed, by more votes than -- >> that is not what the audit concluded.

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you have to go out there and talk about the home health care, and the health care expansions. and pre-kindergarten. you have to go out there and do that for basically the next year, i think you'd want to talk about these with the same language, the same values. this is all about happening to the middle class. we're trying to help people get into the middle class. working families. the wealthiest country and companies, and individuals are paying for, it so that's all under one umbrella. i think you want to have the opportunity lawrence, to show this is one we're able to bring together republicans and talk about the infrastructure piece. which is a little easier messaging. i think that's more familiar people. still important, and taken for granted, but i do think the elements of build back better, democrats earned deficit right now. most of america in terms of what they know in the democrats. they're arguing about it, it's two trillion, is it three trillion, and the really important program and developments i don't think i've been listed. yet there's plenty of time to do. that i

they are issues that relate to home health care. we are still talking about a couple trillion dollars, but it is much less. mostly, we would be cutting back. excuse me? reporter: do you think you would have to drop one of those programs? speaker pelosi: we hope not. we have to have something that will pass the house and pass the senate. i'm not asking members to vote for something that has no chance to pass in the senate. host: speaker pelosi is in dealmaking mode. what should she be looking to sacrifice to get this through? guest: the most important thing she said was at the end. she's going to find a bill that can ultimately pass the senate. look at everything they have ever done. i think she is going to continue to listen. she is going to figure out how to get those votes in the house. whether that is including everything, as she mentioned at a shorter period of time and not others, i think those are conversations to have with the caucus and leaders schumer to figure out what will pass the senate. i do not think they have reached

when we say home health care, that's for elder or children, or siblings who are disabled, something like that. >> so is family leave going to make it into the final bill? family level? >> that's what we're fighting for senator sinema has said she will not support raising the corporate tax rate, raising the tax on high-wage earners, and president biden has acknowledged that might mean you can't pay for the rest of the bill using those sources of revenue. do you have an alternate way? >> we do. we were ready to pay for $3.5, so we certainly can pay for half of that. >> what is it a billionaires tax? >> that has an appeal, but doesn't produce that much money. because the bill is not written yet, and we hope it to be written today and introduced tomorrow, only then can the joint tax committee evaluate what it brings in. we ants pay $250 billion, but we need closer to $2 trillion. so we have other things? >> such as? >> we have enforcement. that's several hundred billion, the overseas -- that's a few hundred billion. we have an array -- we have an array. i'm not going to say what they are. >>

any one of these components, home health care, child tax credit, universal preschool, over $500 billionese are transformational. >> indeed. what about those things that have been dropped with the bill? what do you think would be most disappointing? are you confident democrats will address those things separately at some point? >> i would say first our ambitious goal was a $3.5 trillion bill. it has been cut to half that size. inevitably somethings had to be cut out. for myself as a mom, as a pediatrician, i look at the paid family leave as being a really, really important element i would like to see us continue to pursue to keep up with the rest of the world. i know how much of a difference this makes for children and babies and bonding and early childhood development. i really know we'll continue to pursue that. we're not done. >> as i mentioned, you're a pediatrician. you though what's coming with the fda authorizing pfizer's vaccine for kids 5 to 11. shots could begin as early as next week. as a pediatrician, would you vaccinate your kids without concern? >> 100% i'm totally on board

home health care, which can be an early warning system to serious health problems, can be an early warning keep people out of nursing homes, keep people out of hospitals, thus saving society billions of dollars. we pay those people who do this critical work. what did she mention? $10.50 an hour which does not amount to much. the burden of this work incidentally falls disproportionately heavily on women and immigrants. host: while we have you here, because you are a longtime observer of washington and particular what has played out over the past weeks and months over the bill back better agenda, you have seen a lot of this go on -- how does this compare to other efforts by democratic presidents to pass initiatives? guest: this one is stuffed with a lot of different moving parts, which gives legislators on capitol hill the opportunity to pick off pet peeves and because congress is so divided and because the republicans are refusing to give any help on passing anything, it falls on a divided democratic caucus, which is why really there has been so much paralysis around getting these initiativ

home. health care workers and hank rich hospitals have been detailing threats, and even assaults that they'reust for just doing their jobs as doctors and nurses. >> i got assaulted when i swab somebody for covid who was literally on the verge of dying from covid. she didn't believe she had it, and she struck me and another nurse after we swapped her. i think tensions are just high in general, you asked somebody to put their mask on in the emergency department, they are sitting next to a cancer patient with no immune system, and we can't tell them that. we can share that information. but we're trying to protect our vulnerable patients, and you know we get caught stat and yelled at. i've seen jester gestures. we frankly don't have enough security to keep everybody safe. >> you don't have enough security to keep everybody safe, at the hospital. and this is happening in alaska against this very real bask drop of hospitals across alaska, implementing crisis standards of care. hospitals across the state is -- rationing of health care. because the number of unvaccinated covid patients has so swamped

issues that relate to home health care. we're still talking about a couple of trillion dollars.ostly we would be cutting back on years and something like that. >> would you have to drop one of those programs? >> well, we hope not. we have to make sure we have a bill, which i always said is we have to have something that will pass the house and pass the senate. i'm not asking members to vote for something that has no chance to pass in the senate. >> i'm optimistic that we will get to where we need to be in a timely fashion. >> two-part question -- >> are two parts allowed? there are a lot of questions. >> do you believe you'll get this done this month still? and also on the debt limit, are you still of the view you should not do this as reconciliation? >> yeah, i did tell you that, didn't i? >> i don't think you did actually. >> you asked me and i said no. maybe i didn't recognize you with the mask. again, i'm optimistic. these decisions have to be made. there's been a lot of discussion and we are a democratic party. we are not a rubber stamp or a lockstep party. we have our disc

home. health care workers in anchorage hospitals have been detailing threats and even assaults that they're encountering literally just for doing their job as doctors and nurses. >> i got assaulted when i swabbed somebody for covid who was literally on the verge of dying from covid. she didn't believe she had it and struck me and another nurse after we swabbed her. i think tensions are high in general. you ask somebody to put their mask on in the emergency department. they're sitting next to a cancer patient with no immune system, and we can't tell them that. we can't share that information, but we're trying to protect our vulnerable patients. and, you know, we get cussed at and yelled at and obscene gestures, and we, frankly, don't have enough security to keep everybody safe. >> don't have enough security to keep everybody safe at the hospital. i mean, this is happening in alaska against this very real back drop of hospitals across alaska implementing crisis standards of care. right? hospitals across the state operating above capacity. they're having to implement rationing of health care b

they're talking about reducing the funding for home health care for the elderly. they're talking about keeping expansion of medicare to include dental, vision and hearing. how do they deal with the sticking point of climate change, still an issue out there? nevertheless, despite all of this, a change and an attitude and belief that perhaps the democrats could come together and get this accomplishment for their party. >> finally the operative word. joining us is cnn national politics reporter eva mccann. as one of my colleagues described this morning, this is a chainsaw, not a scalpel to apply, getting a child tax credit down to a one-year extension, that's a major concession. transitions from coal-fired plants, et cetera, i wonder if this enough to make a deal, but are democrats satisfied with it? >> likely not. there are likely a lot of progressives angry about this. the longer this drags on, the more tortuous it becomes. it doesn't make the party look good, it doesn't make the president look good. i think it's just the reality of the situation setting in and dee

those who hate the biden administration so much, if they get the medicare expansion and the home health care, do they hate him enough that they wouldn't accept those programs that he's working towards? thank you. host: all right. conrad, philadelphia, republican, good morning. caller: yeah, good morning. when they christened our community that we had, all this stuff from republicans in donald trump that they did, all this stuff, january 6 and beyond that, if you tolerated that, all of that nonsense and lies the republican party has been preaching, if the united states can tolerate that, this is chicken feed from the attorney general. all these republicans that didn't open their mouths for four years with donald trump, those pipsqueak's and cowards wouldn't say anything. donald trump that they sold out. it sure is funny, don't he know that the so-called ones he said it's all about that sold him out, how come he's the only one that lost? host: ok, independent line, what do you think of the attorney general? caller: i think he's doing a fine job, but i'm a little surprised on the subject that w

care piece of that, children learning, parents earning, especially moms, but dads too who have responsibilities in the home. with the child tax credit, child care/universal pre-k, they go together. home healthopment and housing, to name a few of the aspects of that. and, again, very important to our children. these are jobs issues. health and jobs. family issues and jobs. and now climate, helping achieve the president's vision to cut emissions in half by 2030, advancing environmental justice. that's a very important part of all of this for the president, justice. and creating good paying, clean energy jobs. so it's about the health of our children, the air they breathe, the water they drink. it's about jobs, creating good paying, green jobs to make us preeminent in the world and it's about a security issue as our experts, our security experts tell us. competition for habitat and resources in time of drought and the rest and the migration it contributes to. other natural disasters. it's a national security issue and of course always a moral issue to pass this plan in the best possible way on to future generations. children understand that much better than some of our colleagues on the other

care piece of that. children learning. parents earning. especially moms. dads too, who have responsibilities in the home with a child tax credit. child care/universal pre-k. they go together. home healtht, and housing to name a few of the aspects of that. and, again, very important to our children. these are jobs issues. health and jobs. family issues and jobs and now climate. helping achieve the president's vision to cut emissions in half by 2030, advancing environmental justice. that's a very important part of all of this for the president. justice. and creating good paying clean energy jobs. so it's about the health of our children, the air they breathe, the water they drink. it's about creating good paying green jobs to make us preimminent in the world. it's about security issues as our experts our security experts tell us. competition for habitat and resources and time of drought and the rest and the migration. it contributes to other natural disasters. it's a national security issue, and always a moral issue to pass this plan in the best possible way onto future generations. children understand that much better than some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, in fact.

instead of getting people resources and making sure that we were protected, we lost our jobs, homes, health carevest in police. when someone called the cop on george floyd he was met with the level of brutality that police regularly and routinely use in black communities. the idea that you could train is woefully insufficient. abolitionists are interested in reducing the reason why people need police in addition to reducing the incarceration state . which means at a national level sweeping legislation to make sure people have not just food or housing security, but quality investments in those institutions. and while we fight for student debt cancellation, universal health care, why we fight for universal childcare and daycare so that people in vulnerable situations can go to work, go to school, choose to have work that gives them dignity and excitement. that is the kind of work we are fighting for. i believe that is within our reach. amy: i want to go to chapter eight of your book about the climate entitled "we only want the earth." on the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina in august, hurrica

is it home health care? is it -- >> exactly. >> -- dental and vision benefits for seniors? now moderates have to make that argument. so we are going to see this continue to play out in the weeks ahead and probably a lot more of this from president biden. he is walking a tight rope, not trying to offend any part of his caucus. >> it's true. i thought another really telling part of that press conference was about the fact that all of the policies that he wants, the new policies, the new new deal that effectively he wants in place, they're his policies. god love him, not bernie sanders. they are his policies. things like paid family leave. things like making the child tax credit permanent. and others that, you know, used to be considered quote, unquote, progressive ideas. they are the full makeup of the biden agenda. he said, i wrote them. >> that's why progressives were so frustrated this week. i talked to khana on thursday, right before the first deadline eclipsed. he emphatically said, we aren't the ones holding up the biden agenda. we are the ones carrying out the biden ag

it is as biden used to call i infrastructure and women of color that are under represented in home health care and more likely than their white counterparts to have to change their jobs due to child care with low income single parents, again, being disproportionately women of color and happen to be the democratic base that voted biden and this slim democratic majority into power. the first round of child tax cuts for instance, tax credit payments lifted millions of kids out of poverty. the credit is extended for a year, it could save millions of kidshungry this year. the housing money will make a huge difference for black renters that paid more than half, half their income in rent in 2019 and the climate portion of the bill is so essential because who will get hurt first by climate change when the water levels rise and floods and fires intensify? indigenous people, people of color. now, the bill just has to pass. that's it. and it might have been dead in its tracks if progressives hadn't -- had folded and voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill yesterday. congresswoman corey bush made it

there may not be money for home health care workers and other things that were so important to women.ou have key constituencies like the female voters who may be just left out, this becomes a political problem. so i think biden has done a very good job of trying to keep the conversation going long enough. maybe you help some people for a shorter period of time. maybe you have less universality, you help fewer people for a longer period of time. he has to figure this out, and i think he's doing a good job so far. >> the cnn poll of polls finds biden's approval rating remains at 44%, 50% saying they sdp disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency. the ratings are relatively steady, but he needs better numbers than this to really get it done. >> this is a point in a presidency, it's not a huge surprise we've gotten there now, when the glow is over, the moment of arrival is finished, and people are expecting results. he knows that, he's been through a lot of presidencies. he's also at a different moment, when he got into the senate, democrats had a 14-seat majority, they could deci

whether it's universal pre-k or money for home health care, dealing with disabled be $550 for climatenge but they didn't do that, they lumped it all together. and that's been the challenge. >> the big thing too is what comes next? the white house said the president is committed to paid family leave. midterms are not looking particular promising for democrats. he could effectively become a lame duck president. they have the narrowest majority. he did signal in the cnn town hall he may be open to a filibuster. so a lot of republicans are looking to see if and when they pass these bills are they going to move forward on paid family bill and tuition and college and other things like police reform and animate democrats going into the midterms. if they fall through on a lot of these commitments they made and campaign promises, there are not a lot of incentives for democrats to go to the polls. it's not just this package of bills, what do they do after, and is this it? >> that's the unspoken part of it, is this it? i think everybody kind of realizes this may be their only bite at the apple a

it is issues related to home health care.are still talking about a couple of trillion dollars but it is much less. mostly we would be cutting back but that is decisions we can make. >> would you have to drop one of the programs? >> we hope not but we have to make sure we have a bill which i have also said we have to have something that to pass the house and passed the senate, passed the house and passed the senate. host: let's see what social media followers of same. here is one from facebook that says, inflations and shortages. a tweet that says, the supply chain issue is driven by pent-up demand straining our system. when we gave trump the boot people started buying big again after trump failed to upgrade our infrastructure. so what did you expect? a text that says, there is a coin change shortage in central new jersey. does this problem exist nationally? is anything being done to address the issue? a tweet that says, covid is still killing people in the usa while other countries have many less deaths and higher vaccination

ashley rushing ended up in a homeless shelter with her young son after her job as a home health caree, and then i had just had my son so it was hard for me to find someone to watch after him. do everything being shut down, and i was just having a hard time got really depressed about it. russia and her child are among some 800 families receiving help wednesday from the san francisco family relief fund, along with housing, job counseling and help fighting evictions. the families each receive $1000 gift card definitely from my son because he does need more clothes is getting colder. the fund has helped almost 5000 families in the city when beginning of the pandemic hit. there were resources available from the federal government from the state government, but they didn't hit everyone. board of supervisors president shaman walton helped create the fund for people who don't qualify for state and federal assistance. want some cases. these are undocumented monolingual families. and these are folks who live in public housing and communities that are very low income, extreme low income people

they're part of the same -- meeting the same need, issues that relate to home health care. still talking about a couple of trillion dollars, but it's not -- you know, it's much less. so mostly we would be cutting back on years in something like that. but those are decisions we'll make. excuse me? >> would you have to drop one of those programs? >> well, we hope not. we hope not. but we'll have to make sure we have a bill which i also said is we have to have something that will pass the house and pass the senate, pass the house and pass the senate. and i'm not asking members to vote for something that has no chance to pass in the senate. [ inaudible question ] i'm optimistic we'll get to where we need to be in a timely fashion. yes? >> do you think -- two-part question. >> two parts? is that allowed? >> yes. >> a lot of questions here. >> do you believe you'll get this done this month still? and also on the debt limit, are you still of the view that you should not do this in front of reconciliation? >> i did tell you that, didn't i. >> no, i don't think you did, actually. >>