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Pelosi fails to bring infrastructure package to the House Floor for votes - YouTube
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congresswoman nicole mariotakis uh the
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new york republican sits on the house
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transportation infrastructure committee
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um
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congressman what do you think of where
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this is all going right now uh you know
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neither side progressives or moderates
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of the democratic party appear to have
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gotten what they wanted right off the
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bat but i would have to think that the
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progressives are feeling a little
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more cocky than are the moderates so
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where are republicans in this
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well i think
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this demonstrates the failure to bring
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this bill to the floor demonstrates that
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nancy pelosi and president biden have
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kowtow to the socialist wing of the
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party and i think that's the reason why
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you're seeing so many things
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fail in this country right now whether
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it be you know the economic issues that
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we're facing the inflation the labor
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shortages what's happening at the border
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uh what happened in afghanistan a lot of
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it has to do because they cannot govern
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when they're allowing the socialist wing
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of the party to dictate everything
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so for republicans the president made a
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reference to approaching debt ceiling
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the fact that technically we run out of
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money as a country on october 18th i
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know there's wiggle room there but but
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um
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when he said they do the right thing
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what do you think he was saying
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you know i don't know i think he's once
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again not being honest with the american
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people uh look we there was an extender
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that was passed which carried the
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president trump budget forward for a
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couple of months to hold things over the
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real issue becomes where are they going
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to go with this three and a half
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trillion dollar package
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in there there are
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major increases in taxes major intrusion
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and government control
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into your life reporting every
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transaction over 600 in your bank
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account doubling the number of irs
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agents i mean talk about big brother and
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then you have the entitlements in there
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the welfare expansion without even
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working requirements and this would be
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really detrimental to the economy doing
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the right thing would have been to push
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forward with the bipartisan
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infrastructure bill and bring it to the
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floor and call the bluff of the
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socialists and tell them that they
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aren't going to hijack something that
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was generally
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very good for america and would have
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really focused on true infrastructure
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the roads the bridges the coastal
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resiliency flood mitigation sewer
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systems you know ferries transit the
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things that we actually need and what
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americans pay taxes for what they're
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doing is neglecting the things that
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people actually pay taxes for national
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security public safety
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you know look what they're doing at the
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border in the defund the police movement
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they're neglecting these things that
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people expect for tax
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expect in return for tax dollars and
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they're moving down a path of socialism
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which is extraordinarily detrimental and
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will change the course of this country
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forever if they are successful we have
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to stop it
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you know congressman you you're talking
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about the support that this had the
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bipartisan support that this had among
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republicans certainly 19 republican
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senators voted for it in that body
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how many of your colleagues republican
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colleagues do you think would have
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supported this uh it might still come
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for a vote we don't know when anytime
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soon clearly but how many do you think
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would vote for this would you vote for
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this
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well i was inclined to vote for it and
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again i always say incline because you
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never know what form it's actually going
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to come to the floor and if they try to
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tie something else to it
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i would say that you probably had
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somewhere between a dozen or two dozen
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republican votes in in hand and i think
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that was part of president biden's
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failure here to not reach out to the
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republicans to confirm how how each of
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us was going to vote to see if they had
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the votes to make up for the socialist
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squad and the progressives holding back
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and again you can't call it a bipartisan
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infrastructure bill if it doesn't get
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bipartisan
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votes and so i i think that was a real
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mistake on behalf of the president but
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shows once again that he wasn't honest
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with the american people when he said he
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wanted to work in a bipartisan fashion
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instead they're allowing the socialist
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to drive the bus and this is a dangerous
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mistake
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the things that they're proposing i mean
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you know you can point to many countries
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around the world including venezuela
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which which hugo chavez had a lot of
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those same initiatives you know
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socialized medicine
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as well as free education uh in his
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platform and now look 75 percent of
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venezuela is in extreme poverty as a
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result you just run out of other
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people's money
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all right we'll watch it very closely
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congresswoman uh new york again an
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interesting insight there on the part of
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the congresswoman to say that you know
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there would probably be maybe a dozen
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maybe as many as two dozen republican
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votes for this infrastructure-only
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package we simply don't know but even
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with that math it's interesting that
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this was all shell uh even allowing for
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up to 24 republicans voting for this the
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prospect of all the progressives i think
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they're close to 40 of them who might
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opt out and not vote for it
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had to be weighed and that was enough
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for the president to say just cut it
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it's over
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