Build Back Better Plan

In addition, Cohen has tangled with Trump's right-wing congressional goon squad, taking on Lauren Boebert after January 6th for potentially aiding insurrectionists.

He joins me on mea culpa today as Democrats took a much-deserved victory lap for the Build Back Better Act.

He was also instrumental in helping pass a censor vote against the insane Paul Gosar and has much to say about the violent political rhetoric of today's GOP.

So get ready for one hell of an episode, folks, and let's go now to that conversation.

Right.

That's what I do want to ask you, Congressman.

You were instrumental in the passage of the Build Back Better plan.

What part of that legislation do you believe will be most transformative for the American people?

I think they need to take a look in, into who they really are.

Greene on Wednesday raised the possibility of a civil war if Republicans help President Joe Biden pass his Build Back Better agenda.

"Joe Biden didn't win the 2020 election, and everything we're seeing is a result of that," she told Real America's Voice host Steve Bannon.

Amazing, and I fully agree with your assessment, Steve.

And now you have people in American government, and I'm sure in your guys' government, too, who are communists.

In America, we talk about the Green New Deal, Build Back Better, these socialist programs.

I mean, it is essentially communism.

And you have Republicans.

I mean, it's absolutely insane.

More than one quarter of the administration backed Build Back Better agenda that pulled directly from the Green New Deal.

The Build Back Better agenda included new taxes on natural gas and home heating.

They will do this again.

They will do this again because now you're faced with people that are even more radical than Biden and the people that were in his administration.

It also included new taxes on petroleum and manufacturing.

They picked energy winners and losers.

The Build Back Better agenda would spend taxpayer dollars to push utilities to adopt more costly, politically preferred forms of energy, a move that would reduce Americans' energy choices.

climate?End fossil fuel subsidies, declare a climate emergency, make sure you have massive investment in renewables.

Of course, enforce the emissions laws, but also have a clean electricity program, something we didn't get through in Build Back Better, which would, uh, basically, uh, call for the development of, uh, uh, clean, uh, electricity, clean energy, uh, and, uh, fine, uh, power plants that have excessive, uh, methane or other emissions.

Uh, invest in public transportation, uh, and really have a bold, uh, climate agenda.

One of the things that we've been trying to do on this show, very candidly, is to make this issue more tangible for people in their daily lives because I think a lot of the facts and figures that get thrown out there, they're not tangible for people, and they're not affecting them day to day.

Former West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has had a bit more success with this maverick label.

As of 2018, Manchin's votes align with Trump stated position 60% of the time, and his subsequent legislative actions included sinking the Build Back Better bill, blocking climate change legislation, and voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Still, Manchin received the rebel treatment from the likes of Reuters, calling, quote, a

maverick who was often buck party leadership.