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the size of the president's proposed
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social spending bill could be
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significantly reduced after the
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president took a more prominent role in
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negotiations the first major item that
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appears to be out is tuition-free
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community college for everyone it is a
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sacrifice in order to lower the price to
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get all democrats on board guaranteed
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paid family leave could also be reduced
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from 12 weeks to possibly four
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what is likely to be preserved is
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medicare expansion universal pre-k and a
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one-year extension of the child tax
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credit now this all comes as democrats
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are facing a self-imposed deadline to
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pass social spending and the
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infrastructure bill by the end of the
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month for more on all of this i want to
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bring in congresswoman mikey sharrell
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she represents new jersey's 11th
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congressional district congresswoman
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shrill thank you for joining us so let's
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start with the possible concessions free
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community college is potentially being
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cut guaranteed paid family leave is
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potentially being reduced what is your
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reaction to cutting those items both of
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which the president fought quite hard
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for and what's your thought of the bill
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being scaled down from 3.5 trillion to
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just under two
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sure thanks so much for having me i
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think we've known for some time that the
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the size of the bill was going to be
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coming down so we've been looking at
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what is it that we can invest in to make
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the most amount of impact for americans
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and and that's what we're looking at now
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these are critical issues that are going
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to invest in our economy for the next
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several decades so when we look at
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things like universal pre-k making sure
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people have expanded access to that is
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so important
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as we educate the future workforce
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making sure we have child care in there
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as you know some of the worst hit people
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in this nation after covet have been
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women and women accounted for over half
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of our workforce pre-coveted which was
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actually quite shocking to me and i'm
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sure to many of your listeners so it's
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really important that we invest in child
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care and ensure that they have the means
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to re-enter the workforce in fact the
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recent jobs numbers were really
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dismaying when we saw 26 000 women
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losing jobs while over 200 000 men
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gained jobs and that didn't even include
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the 300 000 women that had just quit
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looking for work
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right and you have made this a a big
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issue for you you made the child care
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benefit nearly universal and in the
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buildback uh better act universal pre-k
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and a one-year extension of the child
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tax credit are likely to be preserved um
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but what do you feel about these other
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parts of it that might not last you know
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tell us about why the issue of child
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care is so important to you
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so part of the reason it's so important
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to me is quite frankly i have four
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children of my own and i can tell you
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firsthand how difficult child care is
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for working parents across the country
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before covet in new jersey there were
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about two children for every one spot in
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child care centers now that that
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situation that was already at a really
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bad point has become a crisis in this
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country now in new jersey there are
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about five children for every one spot
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in a recent discussion with the child
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care center the owner of that center was
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telling me she takes calls all day long
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from people desperately searching for a
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safe affordable place to put their child
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as they try to get back to work
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and congresswoman
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as you know president biden met with
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both senators joe manchin and kirsten
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sinema yesterday
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they are both potentially holding up
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this bill because of the price tag
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with the price tag looking as though it
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will be substantially cut
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what would you say to your democratic
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colleagues in the senate as you try and
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pass this bill
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well i think it's what i would say to
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all of my democratic colleagues in the
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house and senate alike this is a
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critical piece of legislation that we
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have to get across the finish line but i
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think that would probably be well known
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to every single member of my caucus we
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know that we are investing in the future
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of america we are making investments now
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in our crumbling infrastructure in child
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care and getting rid of the state and
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local tax deduction cap investments that
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are going to move this country forward
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for decades to come so the future really
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starts here and that's what we're all
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trying desperately to get across the
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finish line and we all believe so deeply
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in these programs
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house speaker nancy pelosi has set a
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self-imposed deadline of october 31st
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for passing this legislation and the
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bipartisan infrastructure bill
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does it look to you like that is all on
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track right now
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well i certainly hope so because when i
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go home to new jersey
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and i talk about this piece of
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legislation i hear again and again and
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again please get that passed
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get this legislation passed we need to
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get shovels in the ground for the
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gateway tunnel project we need to make
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sure we're building back our economy and
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ensuring that everyone has a great
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future and our children have a great
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future the investments in research and
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development alone are going to be so
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important to many of our corporations
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across north jersey so this is a
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critical piece of legislation and i i do
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think the sooner we get this passed the
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better for families across this country
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congresswoman mikey cheryl thank you so
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much for joining us we appreciate your
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time
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thanks so much
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