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