Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central, you might remember this. Back
Speaker 1: when Joe Biden was elected, one of his biggest promises
Speaker 1: was the Build Back Better Bill, a plan that promised
Speaker 1: to make everything in America better. That's why the better
Speaker 1: was in the name. Yeah, it was going to rebuild
Speaker 1: the roads, fix the climates, reduce inequality, and it was
Speaker 1: even going to give you another shot with your high
Speaker 1: school crush. Yeah, like this time, I won't eat prunes
Speaker 1: before Assembly. Now, all of that depended on getting every
Speaker 1: Democrats vote in the Senate, but there was always one
Speaker 1: senator who refused to play ball. Joe Mansion, West Virginia Senator,
Speaker 1: a man who definitely has a photo on the fridge
Speaker 1: of him holding a fish. No matter what the Democrats
Speaker 1: offered him, Joe Mansion was blocking all attempts, like an
Speaker 1: appellation with Tombo. No, no, y'all. And so it seemed
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden's agenda, very much like Joe Biden himself,
Speaker 1: was basically dead. But then last Nights this happens New Tonight,
Speaker 1: Democratic Senators Joe Mansion and Chuck Schumer announcing a deal
Speaker 1: on a bill that was all but dead. You almost
Speaker 1: never see this in Washington. You never see Washington surprise
Speaker 1: like it is. This morning, Democratic Senator Joe Mansion announced
Speaker 1: he has struck a deal with Senate majority of Leader
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer. This is a major piece of legislation that
Speaker 1: they say would pay down the national debt, cut healthcare costs,
Speaker 1: fight climate change, and battle inflation. It is the product
Speaker 1: of secret negotiations over a package that until yesterday appeared
Speaker 1: to be dead. Two weeks after walking away from a
Speaker 1: climate deal, West Virginia Democrat Joe Mansion embraced one last
Speaker 1: night with a compromise dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act of two.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. Joe Mansion agreed to vote for
Speaker 1: a bill which means Democrats might actually get something in tune.
Speaker 1: Had my dreaming? And if so, what a boring dream?
Speaker 1: And also what a week for Joe Biden. Huh? First
Speaker 1: he defeated COVID, then he defeated low expectations. Look at you, Joe.
Speaker 1: But yeah. In a surprise announcement, Joe Mansion released a
Speaker 1: statement saying that he is on board with Build Back Better,
Speaker 1: except he's calling it the Inflation Reduction Act. Yeah. I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, I don't think anyone cares what it's called.
Speaker 1: As long as it's a good bill. You know, he
Speaker 1: can he can call it the everyone except Joe Mansion
Speaker 1: has got a small dick act, And I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'll just be like, well, at least my dick is
Speaker 1: going to see a better climates. But I think I
Speaker 1: think this has taught us all an important lesson. Everyone
Speaker 1: was so mad at Joe Mansion, calling him names, letting
Speaker 1: their anger take over, writing him off as a villain,
Speaker 1: and it worked. Nice job everyone. Not Just to be clear,
Speaker 1: Just to be clear, this vote isn't everything that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden wants wanted, but it's still a pretty big deal, right.
Speaker 1: It lowers prescription drug prices. It forces big corporations to
Speaker 1: pay the taxes that they owe. But maybe, but maybe
Speaker 1: the most important part of the bill is what it
Speaker 1: does to fight climate change. This would be the largest
Speaker 1: US climate change legislation ever. The centerpiece about three hundred
Speaker 1: seventy billion dollars worth of clean energy tax incentives and grants,
Speaker 1: including dollar tax credits for many Americans who buy electric carbs.
Speaker 1: It's going to try to reduce carbon emissions by by
Speaker 1: This was something that many Senate Democrats simply did not
Speaker 1: think would be included in any sort of legislation they
Speaker 1: could get through. But it's not all green energy. In
Speaker 1: a win for Joe Mansion, the bill also opens millions
Speaker 1: of acres of public land a new oil and gas production. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, tons of money to fight climate change, but
Speaker 1: also some fossil fuel stuff too, you know, just to
Speaker 1: keep Mother Nature on her toes. But overall, overall, this
Speaker 1: is a huge investment in alternative forms of energy wind, solar,
Speaker 1: and they're even gonna be researching new forms of energy
Speaker 1: and who knows what it could be. Yeah, in ten years,
Speaker 1: we could be charging our phones with the power of dance.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, ah, that's right, yeah seven, keep going okay,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, yeah, I got this. I got this A
Speaker 1: ten percent. We're gonna charge all our devices. I'm just thinking.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny is is that if that doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: some white people are gonna be un charging their phones
Speaker 1: because we were like, what what's happening? Wait? Why am I?
Speaker 1: Why am I? Why am I losing power? What's going
Speaker 1: on here? What I'm dancing? What's going on? What's what's
Speaker 1: happening here? What's happening. But this is a huge one
Speaker 1: for the Democrats and now obviously obviously please remember this
Speaker 1: is the Democratic Party, so there is still plenty of
Speaker 1: ways for those things to fall the parts, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: House Democrats could come out against it, Kirsten Cinema could
Speaker 1: come out against it. Joe Mansion could come out tomorrow
Speaker 1: and oppose the bill just out of habit. But if
Speaker 1: it does get through, this could be the legislative victory
Speaker 1: that the Democrats need to write into the mid terms
Speaker 1: and only lose the House by two hundred seats. I've
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