as president biden marks his first
hundred days in office with yet another
massive spending plan he's being
pressured by some
democratic senators to expand medicare
as part of his
next huge spending bill the american
family's plan reports say that it could
cost as much as 1.5 trillion dollars
and that his plan right now is to focus
on child care and paid family leave
now these democrats want biden to lower
the eligibility age for medicare
expand benefits for the government
health program and allow the program
to negotiate lower drug prices and put a
limit on
out-of-pocket expenses all sounds very
expensive let's talk about it with news
fox news contributor sean duffy sean
thanks for joining me
hey jerry good to be with you so this
sounds like there's kind of no limit to
what the democrats want to keep spending
money on
we actually have they have a slim
majority in the house a handful of seats
they have a 50-50 split in the senate
and as lee zeldin said before they think
they
won massive majorities in the last
election which they did not and so
they've opened up their file cabinets
and they've poured every goodie into
any package they can and so they've
talked about medicare for all this is
one step closer to that and what
concerns me jerry is
i mean we're nearing 30 trillion dollars
in debt there is going to be inflation
on the horizon we're devaluing the
dollar there's
a risk that the dollar may not be the uh
the global currency
any longer the reserve currency which
will have huge huge implications for the
country and democrats
don't seem to care this this money is
going to have to be paid back somehow or
we're going to try to print our way out
of it and the consequence of that
is devastating they don't care what they
should work on though is hey go listen
let's try to get people back to work
enough with the programs for everybody
let's set up an economy where people
can get a job a good paying job and
support their families because if you
don't have that and you live off the
government
people become depressed they lose
self-esteem
and you have other problems like like
drugs and mental health issues so
this is a whole set of bad policies from
democrats focus on the economy focus on
jobs
that'd be best it is remarkable sean
isn't it that you know president biden
president obama came in in 2009 in the
middle of a
deep economic crisis everybody
acknowledges that came up with a
spending plan about you know the
so-called shovel ready
spending plan less than a trillion
dollars he had a huge majority of big
majorities in the house in the senate he
was able to get done
biden comes in where the economy is set
to grow really very strongly in any case
this year and he comes in
and not double doesn't just double down
on that he triples down and quadruples
down on that
we do seem to have kind of made a leap
here into a different kind of
economic program it's a really good
point so when i ran in 2010 i ran
against the 860 billion dollar stimulus
package
the shovel ready jobs as you mentioned
so much the money didn't go
to jobs it went to pay off unions in
states that had overspent and so
upon reflection of this money and and
how it's being spent americans i think
will be outraged and will hold democrats
accountable but in 2010 they did the
same thing they had they had a majority
and they had it for two years and they
went as far and as fast as they could
that's when we got obamacare
they're trying to do the same thing here
they understand they're gonna they're
gonna more than likely lose the senate
they're going to lose the house and so
this is the window of time the next
eight months
to get all of these massive progressive
policies in
um and then they'll go home and they'll
probably lose their races
but what we saw jerry which is important
is once you get these programs in like
obamacare
you really can't get them out right this
is going to be a lifetime of spending
that this country can't afford
we need more people you know pulling the
wagon getting jobs paying taxes
than those who are taken from the
government whether it's you know free
health care
free housing or free food let's get back
to work sure what what you used to you
used to work with i'm sure what happened
to the
the centrist democrats the moderate
democrats you know they presumably they
they're watching all this going on and
thinking
this wasn't what biden was elected on
this is going to cost us a an
extraordinary amount of money we're
talking about four trillion dollars
you know we've seen joe manchin in the
senate obviously he but he
he nodded through the 1.9 trillion
dollars in the first bill he's now
saying maybe he'll ball cut some of the
measures
uh the biden's coming up with in
particular the tax increases but but the
democratic party seems to be remarkably
united
in this extremely far-left program that
they've come up with
yeah i mean kristen cinema and joe
manchin yet they're a little bit of a
problem for the democrats but in the
house i mean the democrats want a lot of
moderate seats and
you can't have this left-wing agenda and
go back and ask your voters to re-elect
you
um and i think i think these members of
congress that are democrats in the
moderate seats understand they probably
won't get re-elected
but the pressure jerry is so great from
leadership to take this moment in time
and
you know get these big programs done
you'll go down in history as a great
democrat legislator and so they buy into
that all the while knowing they're going
to lose their seats to republicans
and kevin mccarthy will probably be the
next speaker of the house and lee zeldin
probably the next governor of
of uh new york they don't seem to care
yeah we'll see
i mean it's it is remarkable many of
those democrats you know
are in dis congressional districts that
donald trump won uh in the presidential
election last year it's pretty
extraordinary that they're going along
with this shaun duffy sean duffy thanks
so much for joining me
thank you