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welcome to amped up this is your host Ryan Knight and our guest today is Stephen Simler.

Stephen is the co-founder of the Security Policy Reform Institute, which is committed to promoting ideas that align U foreign policy with working class interests.

Stephen, welcome to Amped Up.

Good to be here, Ryan.

Thanks for the invite.

Yeah, look, one of the things that we talk about on the show is how the rhetoric and platitudes

that Democrats use in their stump speeches while they are campaigning doesn't match

how they actually govern when they have power.

You put together some great charts that highlight this with regards to how

Democrats continue to vote for more money for the military, more money for the police,

and less money for the military, more money for the police,

and less money for the people,

as evidenced in the massive cuts

Democrats have made to the reconciliation bill.

Yesterday you put out a graphic and tweeted and you said and I quote

reminder that it was Biden not the left who defended some of the most popular measures

in Biden's build back better bill Envision, fully defunded. In-home care,

defunded by 38%. Housing, defunded by 42%. Community College, completely defunded paid family leave fully

defunded Stephen what does it say to you about the Democrats that when they're

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