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Sen. Marsha Blackburn: 'Infrastructure bill is a gateway to socialism' - YouTube
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welcome back into wake up i'm rob
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finnerty the senate is moving quickly
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toward a final vote on president biden's
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one trillion dollar infrastructure bill
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that we've been talking about for
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several months now
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it only allocates around 550 million
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dollars to actual
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infrastructure things like roads bridges
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tunnels it's about nine percent of the
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total bill
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joining us now for more on this is
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tennessee senator marcia blackburn
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senator
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good morning this bill 18 republicans it
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seemed like
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could vote for it uh when do you think
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we'll see a vote on this bill and what
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do you make of this is this the right
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thing for the american people
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well when i look at this bill what i see
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is a gateway to socialism
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this is something that the democrats are
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trying to use to pave the way for
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bernie's budget
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which is going to come later in the week
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and that is
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the 3.5 trillion dollar bill
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and i know some of my colleagues have
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worked very hard to try to create
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a bipartisan product we all wanted to
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get something on
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infrastructure that we could support but
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when you look at 110
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million dollars being used for roads and
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bridges
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and runways rivers railways
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and 65 billion dollars that is used
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for broadband this is not something that
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i can support
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you've got 161 billion dollars
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in new fees which that equates to taxes
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right through fees that are in this bill
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you have a 256
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billion dollar deficit in this bill it
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is not paid for
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so the burden to pay for this is going
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to come
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with taxes in bernie's budget
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and then it's going to be shoved off to
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our children and grandchildren
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so in my opinion it's not enough about
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infrastructure
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the bill is too expensive it is the
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gateway for socialism
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it's a down payment on the green new
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deal
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unbelievable nine percent of this bill
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goes to actual
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infrastructure yet this is being billed
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as an infrastructure bill
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when do you think we see a vote i think
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you'll see a vote tomorrow
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and they're really quite anxious
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and i i have to give a shout out to my
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colleague bill
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hagerty because he put
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enacted the filibuster he is exercising
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his right to the filibuster
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on the final vote on this bill and some
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of the other of us that are on the
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conservative side
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cruz lee and i had all filed amendments
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i had 30 amendments that i filed
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to the bill one of them rob was to take
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a billion dollars out of the 20 billion
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going to amtrak
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and use it to build the wall on the
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southern border
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another was to put in place restarting
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the keystone pipeline
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those are infrastructure projects that
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are ready to go
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so let's fund them i like that idea
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you know senator they say and bill
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hagerty is the as your fellow senator in
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the state of tennessee um
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who's been on the program here but i i
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like that because those are what they
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call shovel ready we know the wall is
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shovel ready right now as they say
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um senate minority leader mitch
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mcconnell was on
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over the weekend talking about this bill
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and maybe some of the merits of the bill
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take a listen
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this isn't exactly the bill i would have
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written on my own
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in my office and 99 of my colleagues
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would say the very same thing this is a
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compromised product
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crafted by colleagues with big
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principled
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differences in a senate with the
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narrowest
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possible split but in my view
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what our early statesman called internal
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improvement is a core government
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responsibility
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okay so the senator doesn't sound
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exactly thrilled about the bill but
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the word bipartisan is something we
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don't hear a lot of um
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do you think this bill actually it
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passes it goes to the house and this
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thing becomes law
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what you're going to see is the bill is
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probably going to pass out of the senate
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like i said some of us have worked
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to get rid of some of the worst parts
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of this bill but bear in mind the house
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is going to make this legislation worse
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when it comes back to us
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for a final vote you're going to see a
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product
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that is even worse than what this is
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and what the house is going to do is try
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to wrap this
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into bernie's budget now rob look at
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what they've already spent
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1.9 trillion dollars that they have put
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out on covet funding then you've got
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this
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infrastructure bill the price tag is at
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1.2
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and then bernie's budget they are saying
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is it 3.5
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but what we're hearing is it's actually
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going to be closer to
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5. my goodness so let's just say 7
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trillion dollars
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that is what they're going to spend in
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joe biden's first
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six months in in office
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and what they are seeking to do is put
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us
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on this path to socialism so that our
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kids and grandkids
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are going to lose their opportunity to
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exercise the american dream to live out
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their hopes and their dreams
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i'm going to fight this every step of
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the way
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keep us posted senator we appreciate the
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work you do on the hill thank you so
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much for the update this morning
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you got it hey i'm rob finnerty thanks
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