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Why paid family and medical leave is back in the Democrats' social spending bill - YouTube
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hello everyone i'm tanya rivero thank
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you for joining us democrats are waiting
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for senator joe manchin to get on board
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with their social spending and climate
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change bill one element previously cut
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is back on the table house speaker nancy
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pelosi says paid family and medical
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leave is returning to the legislation
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she says about 90 percent of the bill is
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agreed to and written while negotiations
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continue senate minority leader mitch
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mcconnell says democrats lack of action
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on the economy and other issues hurt
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them in tuesday's elections
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the message was clear
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on inflation
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on economics
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the message was clear on keeping woke
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propaganda
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out of public schools
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nothing very new in that care section
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except the fact that we would like to
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put on the table the family and medical
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leave it's so
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needed and so popular in our country and
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make such a difference in the lives of
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america's families
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very important to women but men too to
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have
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that opportunity
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earlier on msnbc democratic senator
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manchin said one of his main concerns
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with putting it back is how to fund it
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i do not object to it at all as far as
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the concept of paid family leave people
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should be able to have family leave as
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they need it but also we should be
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paying into it from same as we do social
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security it's employer employee
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participation
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nicole killian is following the latest
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from capitol hill hi nicole so
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what exactly led democrats to putting
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paid family and medical leave back in at
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this stage i guess why did they take it
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out and then put it back in
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and what is the latest on negotiations
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overall
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well with respect to paid leave i mean
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you heard senator manchin there he had
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been opposed to it so that was one of
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the reasons that it was taken out but it
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did spark a lot of backlash and outrage
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especially among those who have been
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advocating for paid leave whether that's
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people like senator kirsten gillibrand
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or people like speaker nancy pelosi who
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felt very strongly that it should be in
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and you know what she told reporters
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today is that she just simply disagrees
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with senator manchin on this issue and
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one point a number of female lawmakers
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have made is that you know they're not
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going to let a man dictate one man in
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particular you know dictate the terms of
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something like paid leave which is very
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critical particularly to women so uh
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speaker pelosi did make clear that you
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know look she feels strongly that this
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should be in the bill that it is part of
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a compromise because this will just be
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only four weeks of paid leave that will
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be allowed should this legislation pass
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she felt that it should be longer at
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least six weeks so she feels that
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already you know many democratic
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lawmakers are kind of giving on this
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issue but it did feel pretty strongly
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that it needs to be in
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and nicole after republicans strong
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performance in tuesday night's elections
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what are democrats on the hill saying
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privately about the prospect of losing
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their majority in the midterms
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well certainly you know this has
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sent some shock waves throughout this
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congress but you know i think
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many democrats have said not even
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privately but publicly look they feel
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that they do need something to show and
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i think that's why you're seeing kind of
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the accelerator being put on this build
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back better package the social spending
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package we've been talking about for
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months as well as this bipartisan
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infrastructure bill you know there was a
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thought among some lawmakers that have
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they been able to pass that sooner it
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would have given a candidate like terry
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mcauliffe something to show something to
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tout on the road and even the speaker
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made the point that you know being able
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to show progress to the public is is
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good
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although she feels other factors may
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have been at play in that particular
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race but that being said you know
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democrats feel pretty strongly that they
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need to start delivering on parts of
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their agenda and again i think that's
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why you're seeing at least in the house
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democrats trying to move forward with
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both bills as swiftly as they can
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possibly as soon as this evening
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and nicole senate republicans yet again
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blocked even bringing a voting rights
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bill to the floor for debate yesterday
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now democratic senator tom carper of
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delaware says he supports changes to the
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filibuster for voting rights legislation
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is this an idea that is gaining traction
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among democrats
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well until against traction with folks
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like senator manchin senator cinema you
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know the chances are it may not get too
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far and we do know especially senator
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manchin has been a very strong
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institutionalist and feels very strongly
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that really nothing is going to change
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his view when it comes to the filibuster
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but make no mistakes about it you know
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this is likely to raise the call for
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some type of carve out at least on this
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issue of voting rights because when we
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look at this issue of the john wright's
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voting
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voting rights advancement act i mean
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this wasn't even necessarily a new bill
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this was just to restore provisions in
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the 1965 voting rights act and yet still
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you know republicans opposed it with the
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exception of senator murkowski so that
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being said you know there is a lot of
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frustration among democrats and more
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specifically voting rights advocates who
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feel that again with democrats in
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control of the white house in control of
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the house in control of the senate they
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need some way to get this done and we
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did hear leader schumer make mention of
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the fact even today that you know
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he may possibly pursue some type of
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alternative
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measures to try to at least get a voting
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rights legislation
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to advance in in some capability some
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shape or form
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all right nicole killian on capitol hill
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thank you so much you bet
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