forjoe biden, the stakes don t come much higher. over the next 36 hours, his entire academic platform could unravel, or what the right amount of diplomacy and wheeler dealing, he could be on the verge of a major victory. on the health of the house speaker, nancy pelosi, is desperately trying to keep her fractious trips together to send the first two major pieces of legislation to the present s death. generally speaking, they also support the $1,000,000,000,000 infrastructure package which proposes major new investment in bridges, ports, road and internet connections. at the bail has become a political bargaining chip for those in the progressive wing of the party who threatened to scatter the vote tonight and must have a guarantee that the senate would pass a second bell, much bigotry $.5 trillion social safety net. the trouble is over in the senate where democrats need every vote, there are
. what followed was a go slow one the netherlands roads that lead to a nightmare rush hour for many the protest is part of an angry reaction to reports the largely blamed farmers for spiralling nitrogen emissions the farm owners feel they ve been unfairly targeted while other sectors such as air travel are escaping scrutiny and it s great news docs keep the strange thing is that more planes are allowed to fly at steeple airports and there are no restrictions no limitations while they emit lots of c o 2 and also the dutch harbor s all industry they pollute the air but it s up to us the farmers who have to improve. with their exports bringing in 1000000000000 euros to the dutch economy last year farmers feel they hold serious sway among their demands and no further limits on the number of animals they can keep and an independent review into their emissions the dutch government has promised it will listen to their concerns. it s thought nissan is planning to rethink its decision
a rate of about five and half percent the first half of the year versus last year, it s 1,000,000,000,000 and a half colliers of bank of america customer spending about five and half percent. eight and half percent last year and up five percent the year before.it s more consistent with judy chu and half percent growth. that is very good news for the economy. maria: officially things are really strong could you got unemployment at a 51 year low. he had growth of 3.1 percent in the first quarter and yet the federal reserve will low interest rates in the next coming weeks. said that they wouldn t becausethe data was so strong . maria: exactly! i m going against city hall at this point so to say. i think they were clear about the external factors as opposed to the u.s. itself. the u.s. is fine, relatively strong, the fundamentals are right. it is outsideand the reverberation of that impact back to the united states. we will see what they do but people ought to understand they
let s turn to the deficit. your treasury department issued a one-page statement this week that was pretty controversial. you said the combination of tax cuts, rollback and regulations, welfare reform will not only paper tax reform but reduce the debt net by $300 billion over 10 years. but the nonpartisan joint committee of taxation, the analysts from congress say, even this tax growth as $1 trillion to the deficit and the head of the committee for responsible budget say no we should believe that one-page statement that the treasury department put out. chris, i ve been to these numbers. let me walk you through them before. they are rather simple. okay first of all, we said all along that the joint tax numbers underestimate growth. they predicted about 500 billion of growth. there is 1,000,000,000,000 and a half dollars in tax cuts.
let s turn to the deficit. your treasury department issued a one-page statement this week that was pretty controversial. you said the combination of tax cuts, rollback and regulations, welfare reform will not only paper tax reform but reduce the debt net by $300 billion over 10 years. but the nonpartisan joint committee of taxation, the analysts from congress say, even this tax growth as $1 trillion to the deficit and the head of the committee for responsible budget say no we should believe that one-page statement that the treasury department put out. chris, i ve been to these numbers. let me walk you through them before. they are rather simple. okay first of all, we said all along that the joint tax numbers underestimate growth. they predicted about 500 billion of growth. there is 1,000,000,000,000 and a half dollars in tax cuts. there is 500 billion, the