Al Franken: “I just hate to see us in the so-called interest of paying down our deficit and our debt actually hurting ourselves and…”

It is, I still believe it will happen. Because it kind of has to, and I wish they would get on with it.

What is great about this is that it gives us the time to get Sinema and to get Manchin and to get all 51 with the vice president on board on a package and if we tell the American people and keep telling the American people what’s in it.

The child tax credit, reduce poverty by childhood poverty by half, biggest middle class, working class, tax cut, low income tax cut in the history of the country.

This is an existential threat to our democracy. If we lose our democracy, it`s - we lose everything.