You know, they celebrated the inflation reduction act and mansion finally made
a deal with biden, biden meekly gave him the pen from that deal.
But there was a side deal there to the side deal was even worse helps the fossil
fuel companies more.
There's carbon projects and
hydrogen projects that carbon capture that are potential scams.
And, and it's, it's a massive gift of the fossil fuel industry.
Good news though, they don't have to pass a side deal.
The inflation reduction act already passed.
And just like when infrastructure was already past mansion killed Bill
back veteran said suckers should, I never agreed with what I was saying.
So now I'm not gonna pass your bill.
So obviously progressives have every right to do likewise say, no,
we're not interested in your side deal.
We're gonna vote no.
And good news, Some of them are saying that, Okay, so,
hey, look at that slightly improved situation for
at least progressives in Congress now, is that side deal going to happen anyway?
Well, we're about to find out.
But T Y ET reports has got an exclusive now from one of those House members who's
fighting back and yes, to just democrat in this case, it's Raul Grijalva and
he's asking other progressives to sign onto a letter sent to Pelosi
saying we're not interested in this side deal and you should kill it.
Now remember Pelosi can kill it all by herself or she can promote it.
So let me explain first, Canada's coal reporting for
T Y T investigates representative role.
Grijalva is asking House members to join him in a letter urging
Democratic leadership not to attach legislation easing pipeline
permitting to any must pass legislation.
Grijalva's dear colleague email obtained by TYT was sent
to House members yesterday with a deadline of tomorrow for them to sign on.
So that's today.
I don't know why every progressive in Congress wouldn't sign onto this.
There's absolutely no reason why are you in favor of an extra
dirty fuel pipeline being built just to make Mansion happy?
And the american Petroleum Institute happy.
No progressive in their right mind should agree to that deal.
Right.
And so so grateful was doing a great job.
Give him credit.
Everybody should sign a letter.
I don't know if they have.
We'll check up on that and we'll get back to you on whether people did sign or not.
But there's another critical part in there that I hope you didn't miss.
Pelosi apparently is part of the schumer Mansion deal.
And she's not just going to let them vote on it because if they voted on it,
it might not pass progressives might vote it down in the House,
not in the Senate, right?
She's gonna instead put it in a must pass budgeting bill so
that she could then turn around and bully the progressives and say,
what are you gonna vote against the entire budget.
You radicals vote for petroleum pipelines,
You're still not sure that Pelosi's our opponent,
look at how much Pelosi's helping Mansion destroy the planet.
Remember this deal is totally unnecessary.
It's unattached from a bill that already passed.
Okay, so here's what's in the letter, by the way,
Representative did a great job you wrote.
According to media reports, Democratic leaders have agreed to advance a series of
anti environmental and anti environmental justice provisions at the behest of
the american Petroleum Institute.
These destructive provisions will significantly and disproportionately
impact low income communities, indigenous communities and communities of color.
Pelosi, I don't know if it's true when reading that
part of the letter laughed uproariously.
Like donate to us at all.
Okay, that part I'm making up.
But you can imagine in your mind's eye.
Alright, finally, Candace cole writes the question now is whether progressives
will honor the deal they weren't party to in order to help Mansion and
support new commitments that will worsen climate change at the cost of Black Brown
and indigenous communities.
Well, that is an excellent question.
I'm on pins and needles anna I don't know which way Pelosi and
democrats are going to go.
>> We know obviously, we know, look,
I I love to see progressives fight or at least have a strategy.
Think of a strategy do something,
to prevent the passage of horse crap legislation.
So whether their policy ends up working or not.
I'm uncertain of that.
But it is important for them, at least for their constituents to demonstrate
that they are trying and trying hard to block this kind of legislation, for
me, this little side deal between Mansion and schumer is unacceptable.
It totally poisons any positive press that the biden administration and the democrats
have received in regard to, you know, the so called inflation reduction act, which
is wrongly named because it has nothing to do with inflation drives me crazy.
But nonetheless, so we'll see what happens.
I will say, you know, signing letters is fine.
There needs to be more strategy behind it than just the letter.
That's like the bare minimum in my mind.
>> Yeah.
But look at what was doing.
He's also telling the press us right?
So that is a bold move because normally at best progressive leaders
signed letters behind the scenes and that's a best case scenario.
But they never dare tell the press because then that would be internal fighting in
the Democratic Party.
And MSNBC will yell at them.
Okay, But here Grover is having the courage to say, damn right.
I'm sending a letter.
This is how strongly worded the letter is.
And I'm asking other progressives to sign on to it.
And I'm asking you to fight publicly against Democratic leadership.
I think that is bold.
And and, and so I encourage that.
And that's at least anna the beginning of the right way to fight.
>> Yeah, I agree with you on that.
And, and it's about time.
So more power to them.
I'm not, I'm not being critical towards what they're doing at all, but
it's more of a cautionary piece of advice because we know that corporate
democrats always have some plan to squash progressives and
their efforts to ensure that, you know, good legislation is passing and
bad legislation is being blocked so they have to stand strong once whatever
strategy it is that the corporate democrats have is implemented once they
get all of their media buddies to start raining terror on progressives for
allegedly being the bad guys for blocking legislation that corporate democrats want.
So we'll see how it plays out more power to them.
They should stay strong.
>> Yeah. Last thing guys we told you from time to
time, hey, we get more members.
We can hire more folks.
Like, wouldn't it be amazing if we had a Washington correspondent?
Well we do now can a school look at the story she broke.
So otherwise that letter might never have made it public.
So now there's pressure on everyone in the Democratic Party.
Which side are you on?
It makes a difference if there are progressives in Washington asking the hard
questions and finding out the truth.
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