obamacare did not fix it. to put in place rules that say, insurance companies discriminate against patients with conditions when it comes to enrollment. what the same rules to his encourage insurance companies to discriminate against those patients, like colette briggs, when it comes to coverage and access to care. that is why the networks in obamacare are narrower than in junk plans or short-term plans. they don't operate under those rules obamacare put in place. when it comes to drug coverage, economic research shows those provisions, i would not call them protections, because they are not, those provisions are forcing drug companies, rather, insurance companies to make their drug coverage for expensive conditions like multiple sclerosis worse. these are not protections. if you want to know who is protecting you, think about who is denying you the choice of coverage you want. there are those of us who support a free-market health care that want you to have the choice of choosing a plan that does not operate

what happened after obamacare? what happened after obamacare was implemented. millions of people in appalachia a short distance from washington d.c. lined up for healthcare, they lined up heart conditions, diabetes, asthma and all sorts of pre-existing conditions they never treated, they've never treated before and they lined up people appalachia and it was all because of government regulation. >> okay, you want to respond? >> if you give away free health insurance for what appears to be free health insurance, some will sign up and that is also the good. as i mentioned before, the problem is that it just throws money at the problem and takes away your freedom to choose another approach that might provide a better solution, not drive up prices as health insurance premiums do but constrain them by bringing healthcare within reaching more and more people so they don't have to depend on government or access to care so you will not be a threat if government hits a budget constraint, it doesn't get as much money as it's been following and are also things the governme

patricia: galo, con este nuevo paquete de ayuda los indocumentados podrÁn acceder al "obamacare"?os y ahora tampoco lo podrÁn hacer, patricia. patricia: gracias, calÓ, por ese informe. hablando de la existencia que ofrece el gobierno, para muchos es un alivio que se haya eliminado la regla de carga pÚblica como un factor a tener en cuenta para los trÁmites de residencia y ciudadanÍa. esto facilita que miles de migrantes que necesitan asistencia mÉdica y de alimentos puedan ahora solicitar esta ayuda sin temor. lanka rosa nos cuenta mÁsen new jersey. blanca: para dos generaciones de esta familia recibir ayuda del gobierno fue fundamental cuando reciÉn llegaron de guatemala. >> en este momento ya no lo tengo, pero cuando lo tenÍa chiquito, yo lo tuve varios aÑos. mi hija lo tiene por sus dos niÑos. blanca: isabel obtuvo la residencia sin problemas antes del gobierno de donald trump, pero su hija estÁ en trÁmites para obtenerla. por eso respira aliviada al saber que recibir ayuda federal ya no serÁ un impedimento que afectarÍa su solicitud. >> la verdad, sÍ. ya sÉ que es un hecho que

obamacare did not fix it.lace rules that say, insurance companies discriminate against patients with conditions when it comes to enrollment. what the same rules to his encourage insurance companies to discriminate against those patients, like colette briggs, when it comes to coverage and access to care. that is why the networks in obamacare are narrower than in junk plans or short-term plans. they don't operate under those rules obamacare put in place. when it comes to drug coverage, economic research shows those provisions, i would not call them protections, because they are not, those provisions are forcing drug companies, rather, insurance companies to make their drug coverage for expensive conditions like multiple sclerosis worse. these are not protections. if you want to know who is protecting you, think about who is denying you the choice of coverage you want. there are those of us who support a free-market health care that want you to have the choice of choosing a plan that does not operate under obamac

we are also making it easier to sign up for obamacare. for special enrollment on february 15, we have opened it up. in the first two weeks alone, more than 200,000 americans gained coverage. i am pleased to announce that we have extended that period to run through august the 15th. just go to healthcare.gov or call the hotline at this number. 1-800-318-2956. a few clicks and a short conversation, that is all it takes to start seeing these benefits. decrease coverage and lower premiums. i will close with this, the american rescue plan and affordable care act, millions of families will be able to sleep a little more soundly at night because they don't have to worry about losing everything if they get sick. i, like many of you, grew up in a lower middle-class household based on income. we lived in a three-bedroom split-level home. for kids and our grandpapa living with us. the walls were paperthin. i remember lying in bed and hearing my dad rolling back and forth and i could tell there was something wrong. i remember asking my mom, what is th

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we are also making it easier to sign up for obamacare. for special enrollment on february 15, we have opened it up. in the first two weeks alone, more than 200,000 americans gained coverage. i am pleased to announce that we have extended that period to run through august the 15th. just go to healthcare.gov or call the hotline at this number. 1-800-318-2956. a few clicks and a short conversation, that is all it takes to start seeing these benefits. decrease coverage and lower premiums. i will close with this, the american rescue plan and affordable care act, millions of families will be able to sleep a little more soundly at night because they don't have to worry about losing everything if they get sick. i, like many of you, grew up in a lower middle-class household based on income. we lived in a three-bedroom split-level home. for kids and our grandpapa living with us. the walls were paperthin. i remember lying in bed and hearing my dad rolling back and forth and i could tell there was something wrong. i remember asking my mom, what is th

although about 20 million more americans got health access recently thanks to obamacare over the past 11 years or so. indeed, we are now at the 11th anniversary of the aca. president biden was out in ohio today and he tauted not only his covid relief bill but was speaking about the way it builds on obamacare. >> god forbid you are sitting in a hospital bed with someone you live like i did with my son beau as he was dying and all they have to think about is getting better, not what happens if the insurance company could come in like it did before obamacare and say, sorry, you have outrun your coverage. >> the fact is obamacare has been working this year over 200,000 americans were able to enroll during this public health pandemic crisis. biden had lengthened that enrolling period to august and president obama adding this. >> our complacency but rather should be an inspiration for us to keep ongoing until every single person in america has the kind of coverage that they need. >> it's a story of policy but also of politics and what it took to get here. we're joined now by eugene daniels.

we don't have book -- obamacare opponents running the white house and obamacare doesn't appear to beoing anywhere, why not let people choose, if they want to enroll they can do that and if they want to enroll in a plan that doesn't cover everything or doesn't -- allows insurance companies to price according to risk so that healthy people can get lower cost plans, they can pay lower premiums and get more secure access to care when they get sick? host: let's go back to our phone lines and see what you think on the week of the 11th anniversary of the affordable care act. let's start with david calling from bloomington, indiana. david, good morning. caller: good morning. this is david. yeah, i guess i'll try to make this pretty quick. i used to work for a union, i was unionized for about 25, 30 years and had great insurance and didn't pay nothing for it for years and then very little at the end. and then i left out of there and become self-employed and for the first 10 years of being self-employed i was paying $10,000 a year for insurance. and it never paid, not one dime on any of our bi

it's the 31-year an -- 11-year anniversary of obamacare.erent because they were so dependent on young people signing up for these exchanges, and they were going to penalize them if they didn't do it. and those younger people never signed up, and that kind of took the bottom out of obamacare can. larry: never materialized, you're exactly right. and the numbers across the board for obamacare were very low because, you know, the personal care, the so-called market stuff which is not really market stuff layered on so many different options that people did not want to pay more either premiums or deductibles, and so they just went, you know, went away, just didn't do it. i don't know they ever will. i don't think it's a rescueable thing. i fear they're going to try to layer on with drug price controls, they're going to try to layer on obamacare. it was unpopular from day one, what can i say? cheryl: the financials never worked because they didn't do tort reform which is something i was saying 11 years ago, and they never opened it up to state to

biden has also said he will bring back the obamacare penalty tax but that's if you did not buy obamacare they wanted you to the $700 tax 5 million per hit by the obamacare tax. biden was to bring it back in three quarters of the people who pay that tax, if you are less important that aren less than 200,000 or less than 50000, biden plans to reach her energy because the taxes on energy which go right to your cross, he will raise utility bills and if you are one of the 53% of american households who have a 401(k) or an ira, when you raise the corporate income tax from 21% he said during the campaign 35 abolish the tax-cut's staff says 28% you're never sure who's in charge there. both 28 and 30% or higher than communist china paid when his vice president he saw american companies moved out of the united states, get purchased by other countries because our corporate rate was so much higher than other countries paid the highest in the world 35%. biden was to go back to where it is better to invest- in china because of the tax policy than the u.s. whether he rouses it to 28 or 35, he puts it a

especially as obamacare had been such a focus of the party for the last 10 years. and i wonder with this legislation, if maybe the political war over obamacare maybe quietly died a slow death this week. yasmeen: i think it's hard to ever rule it out completely. but i think you did see during the four years of the trump administration this kind of tortured effort over and over to try to repeal the affordable care act and all that did was make the law's popularity increase. so i think you know they learned the hard way, especially when they lost the house in the 2018 mid midterms because the democrats took advantage of that health care message that they were going to strengthen obamacare and try to make health care more affordable for people. but that's really a losing message. as soon as you -- are trying to take an entitlement away, people don't like that. and the law's popularity reached record levels the more they tried to wage war against it. susan d.: toluse, the country really likes this bill. even a majority of republicans right now say they really like this

and then there is obamacare expansion. what does that have to do withs covid-19? this is just a decades long goal of the democratic colleagues to continue the endless expansion of obamacare, $4500 to pay insurance companies more money to cover people who already have health insurance. that is what they are doing. and 63% of the these subsidies will go to people who already have health insurance through obamacare and that includes huge numbers of people that make over $100,000 per year. never miss a chance to make people more dependent upon the government, it has been policy is that will slow the economic recovery and let me be clear that this hill is going to slow down the economic recovery under way. and i say that because it insists upon adding $400 per week on top of whatever's dates are paying in unemployment benefit and well, what does that mean? it means more than half of every one of you that it's on is employed is going to get paid more not to work than they get it. t working. so who could even think this up? we had unemployment insurance for decades in th

premiums that will be going down for many americans, those who rely on obamacare. take a family of four right now, say, they're making $60,000, they're paying $379 a month, that number's going to go down by about $220 a month for that family in terms of their obamacare premiums. and the reason that one's notable is because it's something, andrea, we're going to see them campaign on not in the immediate future alone but over the course of the next couple of years. it expires in two years just in time for those midterms, andrea. >> exactly right. and donna edwards, that puts health care front and center once again as it was in 2018, something that speaker pelosi said was critical to them winning the house, although they lost some seats, they lost their margin. what are they going to do with the more progressive members of the caucus? they're clearly falling in line here, accepting the changes that were made in the senate. but going forward, that certainly does not bode well for some of the more controversial issues like immigration reform and climate change. >> well,

and the cost of health insurance lowered if you rely on obamacare. the president scheduled to address the nation tomorrow night. and how soon will those checks go out? your questions answered right here tonight. rachel scott live on the hill. >>> it comes as a growing number of states ease restrictions. texas today opening businesses 100% capacity, lifting its mask mandate. other states taking steps, too, but tonight, cdc director dr. rochelle walensky warning 90% of the population is still not fully vaccinated. urging caution having come this far. president biden late today on another 100 million doses of johnson & johnson's single shot vaccine. and what dr. fauci said today about achieving herd immunity here in the u.s. and when. it was encouraging. >>> the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin, charged with killing george floyd. what we learned today about the three other officers charged. >>> the attacks on asian-americans in this country and tonight, the brutal new case involving a 75-year-old asian-american man viciously targ

sometimes called obamacare. running through congress on a roll. their regulatory implementation of obamacare required well over 20,000 pages. that iso a bad way to implement public policy, particularly considering it directed one fifth of the u.s. economy. on top of the law are tens of thousands of federal rules and regulations administered by a score of agencies andrd boards. this is not how our founding fathers envisioned congress protecting the american people and it is a bad way to do business. as a matter of fairness, earmark project funding should be merit-based. and competitive. competitive by formula. earmarks undermine state decision-making or funds that are allocated to formula -based grants. clinical decisions should not preempt state regional decision-making. earmarks should not be a shortcut fornd state and local government engaging in a long-termg plan and budgeting fr anticipated needs. furthermore, state and local governments and other organizations should not be spending time and money to hire lobbyists to chase after federal doll

we're also making it easier to sign up for obamacare.e.gov for special enrollments on february 15th and the first two weeks alone, more than 200,000 americans gained coverage. today, i'm pleased to announce we've extended that period to run through august 15th. just go to healthcare.gov or call the national hotline, 1-800-318-2596. that's 1-800-318-2596. a few clicks, a short conversation, that's all it takes to start seeing these benefits. increase coverage and lower premiums. i'll close with this. with the american rescue plan and the affordable care act, millions of families will be able to sleep a little more soundly at night because they don't have to worry about losing everything if they get sick. i, like many of you, grew up in a middle class, i guess, technically lower middle class household based on income. we lived in a three-bedroom split level home with four kids and our grand pop living with us. and the walls were paper thin. i can remember lying in bed and hearing my dad rolling back and forth and i could tell there was som

time, in the green room we said that for them, this is very, very much like the passage of obamacare, this is huge and to be able to do this in such a short period of time. so, you know, experience matters. being prepared matters. competency matters and i think the way they came in was pretty amazing and you know, just short of his description of i'm a staffer and i'm here to-- which is very much, you know, jake you were pushing him on this. it wasn't quite as feisty as the oprah interview, but you were getting there. >> no one has ever accused me of being nearly as good as oprah. i think she has many legs up on me in that category, to be honest with you. >> well-- you served in the clinton white house so you have-- you have a history of being a staffer, right. i mean, how do you think-- how do you think joe biden-- and by the way, everyone is a staffer besides joe biden, which is the ultimate kind much easterny. >> -- irony and-- >> and it's true, but not everybody knows that. >> that's true. i mean, how do you view-- so if you zoom back a little bit and think about your experience a

stimulus checks, unemployment benefits will be expanded, and the cost of health insurance under obamacare lowered. analysts say the bill, which passed without a single republican vote, will also dramatically cut poverty nationwide, funding programs for food aid and housing assistance, and offering tax credits for children. as we come on the air, the white house is celebrating the new president's first legislative victory, while republicans are lambasting it as wasteful spending that will further inflate the national debt. and while new polling shows the majority of americans support the plan, tonight, it's clear that nearly every american will feel its impact. we have a lot of new reporting on all of this, as well as some big news from the white house about a deal to buy 100 million more doses of coronavirus vaccine. our team of correspondents is sanding by, covering it all. and cbs' kris van cleave is going to lead off our coverage tonight from capitol hill. good evening, kris. >> reporter: norah, congress has now spent roughly $5.5 trillion combating the coronavirus and its economic fal

we saw that with the obamacare debacle.o, this really is a trojan horse to move through the green new deal, to do income redistribution, and, in fact, i would assert that this is a group of people we have seen destroyed president trump's control of the southern border and turned it into chaos. everything they have done so far has been a disaster. and now this will be no different, especially if as we are still dealing with the pandemic and its economic crisis that the same people continue to apply to us with the lockdown. >> rachel: right. well, you know, i have talked to people about their concerns. they said, you know, we are printing money. we are massive death. the government is growing massive rate. do you know who is worried about this venezuelans, cuban-americans, they say we have seen this before. >> yes. and this is -- we have already at 100 percent of our g.d.p. when it comes to the debt. i know that sound like we are in the weeds here. but the fact of the matter is that's unsustainable. there is this presumption

that's certainly what happened with obamacare. eaten away over time because republicans got control of one house or both and cut pieces out of it in pieces -- obamacare is a shadow of its former self. that risk happening with a lot of what the democrats are trying to do, not so much with this because they will never be able to grab back that spending and the other thing of course is, bret, when you have a narrow majority, it just doubles a president because the hard-core ideologues in your party, and this is true of both parties, think you can do whatever you want and of course with narrow majorities you cannot. you have a lot of very unrealistic expectations joe biden is going to have to contend with on his left. as part of the reason you're seeing the divisions you are. >> bret: talk about the divisions with democrats. on the republican side, after watching cpac, what's your take about the g.o.p.? >> well, i was struck by a number of things. he talked forever and he said about everything you've heard them say including, regretta

he said, they want to call it obamacare, i'll call it obamacare.hat emotionally, but this research had made me think in retrospect that was a mistake. it was a constant refrain of democrats, the affordable care act was more popular than the bill itself but it acted as a refrain of how you felt about obama. democrats who understood differences in the bill, maybe more liberal democrats, bernie sanders democrats, who wanted single pair, they didn't like it for that reason. republicans knew how they felt about barack obama. so with biden, he's not made the american rescue plan, it's not bidencare, or the stimulus payments are not bidenbuck, the child tax credit is not bidenkids. none of it is joe biden. joe biden is running a quiet presidency. there are reasons for that, i don't think it's all strategy. i think less is expected of joe biden because of the way he won the white house. i think he has a different temperament. i don't think people think he can an superhuman communicator. i think the right has become more split on economic issues and is obse

i point to the obamacare repeal example. used reconciliation so the filibuster was no help to democrats in preventing repeal. they simply failed to get a majority to repeal obamacare. once progressive reforms are enacted they've been historically very hard to undo. >> yeah. you have a bill. i know, katie porter, that you have up. this is the bill on mental health. does it have a chance, do you think, to survive in the senate? >> i certainly hope so. the reality is that as we're talking about dealing with police violence that one in four people who are fatally killed, fatally injured by police violence are those dealing with mental illness. we need to stop treating mental illness like a crime. instead of sending police in response to a 911 call, we need to send trained mental health responders. >> indeed. >> that's exactly what my bill would do. >> hopefully, joe manchin doesn't have a problem with it. congresswoman, katie porter, adam, thank you. that's all on tonight's "reid out." >> tonight on "all in." >> first they outla

hours below $30.00 both 30 a week so they can save thousands dollars in the employer mandate from obamacare you know this is a comprehensive policy and it ends up having a lot of unintended consequences for the very people the lower income the working families that we all agree we want to help have rising incomes hey david as we talk about gloom and doom in the u.s. economy what to do about it i understand you have a new netflix hollywood production called don't look up tell us about it. sure it's a movie that is spearheaded by the one and only great director adam mckay what i can tell you is it's sensually about a story of a world in which an asteroid is headed towards earth and nobody seems to care nobody seems to want to do anything about it kind of metaphorical for our current world on a lot of these issues do you see the minimum wage debate as an end of the world to me. i don't think it's like an asteroid headed towards earth certainly it's an important debate but i do think the you know what the movie is sort of spotlighting is in some cases our hostility to what's happening in our wo

many people i've talked to said with obamacare the premiums were so high, it was actually higher than their mortgage at home. well, republicans want to lower health care costs, actually the cost of care. democrats seem to just want to raise what government pays. and democrats are also trying to pressure states into expand medicaid, there are about a dozen states that chosen not to expand medicaid. i'm a doctor, i know the importance of medicaid and the importance of providing care for people who cannot care for themselves, often it's families, low-income families, disabilities, you know the original intent of medicaid, a huge value for the american people, but not with what they've seen with the obamacare expansion. we should work together for these most vulnerable of individuals so that they can get the care that they need. yet, it's not what democrats are doing with this proposal, not with the additional subsidies, not with the additional expansion of medicaid many they are trying to bribe states -- bribe states to give free care to able-bodied working adults, not the people that we

this includes enhancements to refundable tax credits, an expansion of obamacare subsidies, and an $86 billion taxpayer bailout of poorly managed pension plans, and poorly managed pension plans, that's something i've been trying too reform over the last two years, and reform is necessary as much as helping them with some taxpayers' dollars. but there's absolutely no reforms in this stimulus of those multiemployer pension plans. it's simply an $86 billion bailout. in the case of covid, there are some things that no amount of money can address. until the widespread immunity is achieved, many people will not feel comfortable eating out, going to a movie, taking in a concert, or traveling on a vacation. spending trillions of dollars will not change the attitude of those people that are going to still be very cautious. so here's what i'd spend the money on and a lot less money than $1.9 trillion. so, yes, let's prioritize funding for vaccine distribution, assistance for the unemployed, and aid for small businesses in the struggling sectors. and, by all means, let's open our schools. doing t

they tried to pass obamacare, they did not get assistance from replicants so they said let's go it alonecan keep your side together, you can pass anything you want. eighty votes for something, all you need is a margin of one. in this case, the key with joe manchin of the democrat from west virginia. democratic leaders knew they must secure the votes joe manchin and kristin, he reduced the side of extra unemployment benefits to $300 a week compared to $400 each week. he delayed the process by 12 hours yesterday. it wasn't all pediatrics. the true delay, he was able to show his constituents in the white house they need to come to him to pass the bills. basically here, mansion is the most powerful senator in washington, you don't need republicans if your side sticks together. arthel: speaking of sticking together, now the bill will go back to the house. can the democrats together because the more progressive or liberal democrats who may or may not be on board with this bill and then there's going to be a changing of the guard come wednesday. talk about that. chad: house democrats are probab

the connection is interesting because oscar set itself up to work under obamacare so dismantling obamacare major focus of the trump administration, but they were't able to get that done. emily: what is your outlook on the company and thrive in general, especially under a new administration? tom: i think when you talk about the biden administration potentially being a more positive catalyst for the country -- the company, i think they feel like they turned the corner a little bit and that is probably one of the reasons why the ipo is happening now, under the new administration. there is more certainty in the health care marketplace. it is still a challenge for the company. they have never made a profit like a lot of other tech companies, they have a history of losing money, their losses increased last year by about 50%. so it is still a challenging environment. health care is challenging. but i think obviously they are focused on their tech platform, and they feel like they are trying to bring a better experience to customers through that. emily: we will continue to follow that. tom maloney

i remember in 2009 and 2010, i think you were around during the obamacare rallies.testing obamacare. i mean we were up on capitol hill with the great time, we had music. it was fun for people. who is going to do that now? even if the fences were down. given the fact that you now know geolocation data is used and that you could very well be surveilled and called a domestic terrorist later. >> it wouldn't the first time we were surveilled. they really did go get the phone records and they misrepresented that in the impeachment hoax. you are right. one of the basic rights we have in the country is freedom to assemble. so you have to remember that the talk is frightening the american people at this point to get out and be part of the government. because thaw don't know if their government will be spying on them. including the members of congress. the fences and the razor wire around the capitol now is a hollywood production. if we shut this down every time someone says something bad about the capitol it wouldn't open again. most americans may think that is a good idea.

that's what hillary clinton said in april when she said this quarantine will allow us to have obamacareified throughout the country, that is what it's aboutt. >> it's very clear and no one puts it moreou clear than you d, thank you. >> tucker: you have to wonder why republicans don't see this, michael mccaul and every other officeholder in washington making excuses for this loose is in the next primary, i'm suret they're all nice people but if you won't defend your own voters who did not deserve job. the purge of dr. seuss is accelerating tonight, if you want one of the books, you can'e get it on ebay because they've been banned for hateah speech. that's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ spoon getting texts in the breaf from friends who live in washington, d.c., people being shocked, all over the city, totally third world place. people living on the streets by the thousands. did any members of congress worried about who would not notice this? what is happening to our capital city? they are allowing it to our hap. nothing is more infuriating than that except maybe was happening to dr. seuss,ng if it happene

as vice president in 2009, he saw firsthand the rocky rollout of obamacare, then democrats took a shellacking in the 2020 midterms. that is why the president has tapped an expert, gene sparling, to oversee the interpretation which may well be his signature achievement. the white house is also dealing with an escalating situation at the southern border, the biden administration employing fema to take care of hundreds of migrant teens and children who are arriving in such large numbers, there aren't facilities to shelter them. so almost 4,000 kids are being kept in border patrol facilities and even jail cells designed for adults. we're going to go live to the border in a moment. >>> there is also breaking news involving a lingering mystery of an insurrection at the capitol. two men have been charged in the assault of capitol police officer brian sicknick, who died a day after the riot. the men were caught on video spraying officer sicknick with an unknown substance, possibly bear spray. much more on that in a moment as well, and why the mystery may have just deepened. >>> as we await the presid

this would just expand subsidies overall under obamacare., temporary, but it's something democrats say is critical. let me sneak in one more big item that i hope we will talk about in future days. pensions. this bill has an $8billion provision and it that would basically bailout some intentionally insolvent pension funds. that affects millions of workers who are standing to lose those. >> finally, yamiche, one other major beneficiary and all of this are schools. that is outside of the money that will reopen schools. tell us about what is here for colleges. yamiche: president biden is focused on trying to get schools reopen, as well as giving resources to students in higher education, as well as k-12 to help them go through the pandemic. there are nearly $40 billion for higher education. this includes public and private colleges and historically black colleges and universities. it will be $3 billion in supplemental rewards. $7 billion for internet connectivity and devices for students to participate in learning online. that has been a big iss

elizabeth: so sort of like a nancy pelosi moment on obamacare.ou got to pass it to find out what's in it because you know, we've got, it is being called democrat boondoggle. can you tell us what is in it? >> yeah. i'll tell you. less than 9% of all the spending of the $1.9 trillion actually goes to health care spending or shots in peoples arms. out of the $130 billion that is in it to open up schools, less than 5% is actually used this coming year. if you take out checks going directly to hard-working americans that need it, almost half of that money is not spent until the year 2022 or after. it is a disaster. this bill is the wrong plan at the wrong time for all the wrong reasons and they are clearly passing a blue state bailout. elizabeth: yes. that is what we're hearing too. less than 1% is actually going towards vaccines. senator john kennedy had a lot to say about this. let ace listen to senator john kennedy. watch. >> this bill is dreadful. the only way i know how to improve it is with a sledder. it is not even -- shedder. callingcall coron

to help subsidize obamacare. $47.8 billion for testing and contact tracing.and contact tracing? $7.5 billion for vaccine administration and distribution. $6 -- what happened to the $4.1 trillion we already spent for that? manufacturing and procurement, $7.6 billion to expand public health work force, $7.6 billion for community health centers. i thought we had walmart and we had all these pharmaceutical companies, why do we need federal distribution centers? and, by the way, we have federal facilities everywhere. why do we need new federal distribution centers? $6.1 billion for native american health programs, $3 billion for substance abuse and mental health block grant programs. provides $50 billion for fema. 14.5 billion for veterans health care services, 0 billion for emergency -- 10 billion for emergency pled call supply production. $8.7 billion for covid-19 response efforts overseas. extends federal unemployment compensation benefits -- the federal government never used to pay for unemployment benefits. now on top of the states $30 per week through septem

had that in mind exactly 11 years ago when congress voted on what republicans were then calling obamacare, because they were sure that it would hurt the democrats, whether they passed it or not. the night before the house vote, president obama gave a final rousing speech to house democrats. >> but what did lincoln say? "i am not bound to win, but i am bound to be true." two generations ago, folks who were sitting in your position, they made a decision, we are going to make sure that seniors and the poor have health care coverage that they can count on, and they did the right thing. and i'm sure at the time they were making that vote, they weren't sure how the politics were, either, any more than the people who made the decision to make sure that social security was in place knew how the politics would play out or folks who passed the civil rights acts knew how the politics were going to play out. they were not bound to win. but they were bound to be true. >> president obama tells the story in his book "a promised land" this way -- "it was often those with the most to lose who needed the l

because just like they did with obamacare, they took the money out of medicare to fund obamacare.what you just said in terms of taxes going higher. cowen and company's out with a report this morning, they're telling clients that we are going to see a $3 trillion bill soon after this is passed and it's going to include some infrastructure, but it's largely going to be tax increases. so what do you know about this? are you expecting to be debating a tax increase package that will take effect this summer? >> oh, of course. of course they're going after taxes. they're going to raise the gas tax. anything to make you pay more at the pump. and try to get rid of fossil fuels. they are going for it. they're wanting to put more money into mass transit and build more mass transit systems. that doesn't work in the heartland of the country. but these are all about bailing out and shoring up the big blue states along the east coast and along the west coast. and maria, they are on a tear. they feel like that they are going to lose the majority in 2022. they're already talking about they have a

americans and other elements include a child tax credit of up to $3600 per child and an expansion of obamacare subsidies. >> i have every confidence that the host will pass the bill and the president will sign the bill. i'm hopeful we can have a nice signing ceremony sometime this week. >> it was a very partisan vote and not a single republican in either chamber supported the bill. >>> it seems almost everyone watched oprah's interview with meghan and harry, even the white house. >> for anyone to come forward and speak about their struggles with mental health and tell a personal story takes courage and that is something the president believes. >> that is white house press secretary, jen psaki, speaking during her press briefing today. she said president biden is comm to investing rogrs combay ises broughtup th oprah. we have much more on that, just ahead. >> from mental health to royal racism. the exclusive interview that has the whole world talking. >>> prince meghan and harry tell all. i'm ian lee with explosive claims about life inside the royal family. >>> oprah winfrey response with what