Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and NBC's Jonathan Allen joined Stephanie Ruhle to discuss the latest developments on the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure proposal, and the political fallout if Congress fails to pass a package. "I think this could cost the Republicans the midterms," McCaskill says. Plus, NBC's Sahil Kapur reports from Capitol Hill with breaking updates.
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McCaskill: 'I Think You're Going To Get A Deal that Will Be Very Popular'
Stephenie, point taken. Have you taken a look around? Republicans are a slippery slope.
Silly people. They actually still think Republicans are negotiating in good faith. After you’ve seen Lucy yank the football away from Charlie Brown for the hundredth time, it gets really boring. But get ready to watch it again.
Yeah, I don’t understand it. Why not just throw it all in the reconciliation bill and call it a day?
Is that Christopher Hitchens in you’re avatar? Loved him
It is hard for a lot of US to not think Republicans will vote it down in the end, like they do with everything…actually passing something for the American people would mean the GOP doing their jobs and that is not what they do!
Agreed! 🙂
Just throw a trillion in tax cut to his donors and the rich and they will line up to cast their vote.
Depressing,but all too true .
@Al Tischler When will you understand that an infrastructure project is an investment, not a giveaway? The Interstate Highway Act has paid for itself many times over. Investment in human capital, like the GI bill, which kicked of the postwar boom. Raising the standard of education (so we don’t have to explain things to you) pays back in increased productivity. Now it takes a BA to get the kind of job a HS diploma used to be good for, yet we only support public education K-12. When I got my BA in 1968, my first job paid $5400 a year, about par back then. In today’s money, that’s $42,000, which is about what a BA would get you today, except back then employers trained you; now you have to get experience doing unpaid internships or working in the gig economy. Meanwhile, real GDP per capita has doubled and house prices have quadrupled. So the rich have gotten a lot richer, and the middle class have been screwed; but in your mind, shifting the balance more to the centre is a “giveaway”. Reaganomics. Herbert Hoover.
The “Transit Issue” will never be resolved, because included in the language is the Biden administration holding $200bil in transportation funding over states’ heads to end single family zoning in their suburbs. States dont want to end single family zoning…neither do all the suburban men that handed Biden the election. So get real. Whats interesting is that the administration nor the media, who will dig into the smallest details when it suits them, they arent talking about it because they know that their support for it will evaporate faster than a raindrop in the sun.
The two party system or any system works only according to the integrity of those applying it
Well we he’d very unpopular policies the last 4 years that led to 90% unemployment and economic collapse so we dodged a bullet getting Biden in there and saving us!
@Raptango_NA yes it does mean you support having a facist dictatorship in our country if you don’t support the Anti-facist ideology. Sorry nothing you can say to change my mind.
@Seth Huddleston change your mind…lol. I was just asking you to explain why you support terrorism to fight imaginary Fascists. You must be really bored in your life.
Trump gave us the best economy in a generation. 90% unemployment? You’re out of your mind, even for Che Guevara.
@Raptango_NA Sounds like propaganda.
@Rusty T it’s all true. Every word of it. The dem media just never would report it
The inflation numbers are just recovery from the pandemic!
This!!! And also climate change costs (fires, floods, scarcity of valuable resources, etc), and probably this insistence on continued, unchecked growth over sustainable equilibrium.
@Penny Zee Nederlander Food &Shelter
Stephs, comparison to the previous administration’s infrastructure week doesn’t really apply, they had a more overwhelming control of the 3 branches of government until 2018, Mitch M, and the Federalist society called the shots and then there’s the video of the President kicking a binder of regulations across the floor during an infrastructure week speech.
You’re trusting the same idiots who started inflation and lunatic policing laws.
Stephanie is a dishonest, corporate chaos agent. Obscuring and bending information is what she does… She also loves private jets and cheating on her husband with the ceo of Under Armour. Such a good catholic.
Did that happen????
Republicans ain’t ever going to vote FOR anything, they’re desperately trying to waste as much of Biden’s Presidency as possible.
You do realize dummycrats hold the majority, 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well don’t you think he screwed up enough already?
@Internet Tough Guy who cares – He’s not an orange loser traitor
Which makes them look so bad that I seriously doubt the republicans will be back in power anytime soon.n
They have spoken out repeatedly that their only allegiance is to DJT. Not to the American people, our country or our constitution.
CLAIR …NOT ONE MENTION OF JOHN LEWIS VOTING RIGHTS ACT ? So what if there’s money thrown at INFRASTRUCTURE , when on the backside OUR RIGHT TO HAVE OUR VOTE COUNTED IS WIPED OUT BY THOSE WHYLY SEDITIONISTS !
FOCUS !
Republicans ARE NOT GOING TO WIN ANYTHING IN THE MIDTERMS!!!!!!
Sure they will. There’s a lot of low IQ rightwingers who vote against their best interests.
Ruled by fear of anything and everything! Now we are afraid of inflation that is easily explained by the events of the last year, smh.
Stephanie, why aren’t you throwing the republicans under the bus like you did Bernie Sanders?!?! You don’t have to be a mean mess with the only one in the senate that was trying to help the poor during the height of covid!!!
Really?? Because with every passing moment it seems the Infrastructure Bill gets watered down more and more to appease the GQP. By the time it’s actually passed, it’s gonna be so stripped bare and ineffective that working class America will NEVER see anything tangible from it.
This is the first time I have seen Clair at home without a cake behind her.
GET THIS PASSED ALREADY!
Claire was a Blue Dog moderate Democrat and she lost her re-election to someone who simply lied about her record. So if they’re gonna say you’re a socialist baby-killer no matter what, might as well pass tax increases and give ppl the same level of public services and infrastructure they’d get in Canada or any EU country.
A neoprogressives isn’t going to get elected in Missouri. Look at the one who tried in West Virginia, she failed miserably where a Democrat like Joe Manchin won. You still haven’t seen a squad type democrat win outside a deep blue bubble so your argument really doesn’t hold water.
Missouri loves Claire McCaskle.
I wouldn’t trust republicans’ negotiations – they ask for stuff, get it, then vote against it. They are miserable, party over country people, with not a bipartisan bone in their bodies.
You’re right.. Listen to that guy.. They already blame the democrats for not being flexible..
LOL, Look at anything that is run by democrats. Look at IL or more to the point Chicago. Democrats are the slave owner party and it shows how there corruption and politics work.
GFYS…
Fix climate change, end racism, help the poor, 3 big lies Biden promised while debating Pres Trump
New York City Transit’s subway system is 100 years old and in desperate need of repair! Every town in America needs improvement. Infrastructure is common ground
Yes. A common ground!
Why is it then that only 7% of the spending is for actual infrastructure
@Raptango_NA Not true
@TT it’s completely true. Look it up if u dont believe me
The GQP is JUST LIKE Lucy with the Football! They will agree to a deal and then pull out at the last minute! They NEVER DEAL in Good Faith! Despicable!
The only people Republicans help is themselves and their Dark money founders.
We all should pray that this backfires on the GOP.