future rate hikes. the strong number suggesting we have a long way to go to tamp down inflation. dana: nothing to dissuade president biden from more big spending. he unveiled his election budget, $6.8 trillion. bill: more of a campaign stunt than serious proposal. republicans call it dead on arrival. the president begs to differ. dana: team fox coverage an all list from james freeman at the wall street journal. edward lawrence has the latest on the job numbers. good morning. those jobs numbers beat expectations. unemployment rate went up to 3.6 pers percent mainly because more people became unemployed than moved into a job. the people who were unemployed lost a job or finished temporary work. wages in this report are still out pacing inflation. if you look at the wage it is 4.6% year-over-year. that means workers are actually making seeing their paycheck go less far than they did. cpi inflation at 6.4%. the federal reserve is watching the wage growth. higher means
people that they are trafficking into america, how they enslave them in the sex trade and how the treat these people and leave them for dead in the deserts. we need to pick up the pieces of those families who lose loved ones to fentanyl poisoning. dana: mexico s president obrador rejecting claims that mexican drug traffickers are responsible for the fentanyl in the u.s. and saying it is u.s. problem. not mexico s. bill: bill melugin back at his post in brownsville, texas, where he has been most of the week. hello. good morning to you. it is well established fact that fentanyl is mass-produced in mexico by mexican drug cartels in their labs using chemicals imported from china. mexico s president said they have nothing to do with that and it s all the u.s. s problem. he said take a look. here we do not produce fentanyl and we do not have the consumption of fentanyl. why don t they, the united states, take care of their problem of social decay? fentanyl is pouring into the
it is economically ill literate. it raises more taxes, creates the biggest government we ve ever seen in the history of the united states. they want to spend money. they want to raise taxes on you. it is wildly irresponsible. julie: wall street journal board sums it up this way. all the president s tax increases for the wealthy, corporate stock buy backs, certain unearned income on the spendsing side the defense increase doesn t even cover inflation when compared to last year s budget. now the plan calls for thousands of new employees for the epa and i.r.s. the border on the back burner yet again. no boost for the dhs budget. the plan also adding only 350 border agents. that won t make up for a shortfall of 1,000. biden s own dhs secretary is even worried. so what do you propose? how do you propose that we handle 8,000 people each day when we are not resourced for that personnel, facilities, transportation an the like? how should we handle that? by redistributing mo
the mexican drug cartels suspected of kidnapping four americans and murder of two oco of them the gulf cartel turn in five of its men beaten up with their hands tied behind their back inside of a black pickup truck appeared alongside of them come a hand written apology note which says, they decided to turn over those of directly involved in the events and they acted under their own decision-making and lacked discipline. just a few hours later, reports surfaced from mexico it had arrested the leader of the gulf cartel. a crackdown on groups killing hundreds of americans over fentanyl. but don t be fooled the president of mexico made the stunning, yesterday. here, we do not produce fentanyl and we do not have consensus to produce fentanyl. why don t they come of the united states, take care of their problem of social decay? kayleigh, the address preposterous nature of that, is mind-blowing. the thing i keep thinking about, there is no way he would make that audacious comment u
state showdown. we begin with the fox news alert and we are awaiting the white house briefing next hour where karine jean-pierre will be pressed for the president s massive $6.8 trillion tax and spend budget plan. a lot to unpack in america reports in the next two hours. i m john roberts in washington and, s sandra, weather correspondent made it to washington. i m sandra smith, glad to be with you, john. this massive new tax and spend plan as inflation remains stubbornly high and as a brand new jobs report is just released by the labor department. it did show payrolls rising by 311,000 last month. that was higher than expected and as the wall street journal references what they see as evidence of resilient economic economy. the unemployment rate meanwhile ticked up to 3.6%, that s from the record low in january. but there s still a big question on what s coming down the pike as more rate hikes could be on the horizon. so with that in mind, let s get right to it wi