from 2018 onward. right now we re at the second largest at $1.35 billion. it was just past this past summer when we had $1.37 billion in july 2022. so we ve been seeing a lot higher jackpots recently. now, why is that the case? well, turns out there was a rule change a rule change back in 2017 that made it more difficult to win. but of course when it s more difficult to win and fewer and fewer are winning, it drives up the jackpot. what exactly happened? well, what the mega millions folks decided to do they decided to take the megabowl which must be matched today win and that went from 1 to 15 the potential possibilities to 1 to 25, and that took the odds of winning from 1 in 259 to 12 in 303 million. maybe it is my lucky day to quote clint eastwood. here s some advice, though, if you want to win and want to get
polling out there right now. no one really wakes up in the morning except for donald trump and his fan boys and says we have to build a wall. they look at the border as a different kind of security problem and with different and more effective ways that are out there. nobody wants to look at this, at this problem and say in the senate and say, oh, god, i have to go out and defend an $8 billion recapitulation of the entire think that we shut down the government for. that cost the president polling position, that cost us polling position. that was the wrong policy and the wrong thing and it s a giant budget buster. none of that makes sense in terms of moving the political ball in the senate. those guys are in the same spot they were on the $1.37 billion that ended up passing for fencing and repairs in the prior shutdown bill. it s not going to go anywhere. it s just the president rage tweeting as he likes to do. rick wilson, a frequent guest of ours, is a political pro. and that s no
government for. it wacost us polling position. none of that makes sense in terms of moving the political ball in the senate. those guys are in the same spot they were on the $1.37 billion that ended up passing for fencing and repairs in the prior shutdown bill. it s not going to go anywhere. it s just the president rage tweeting as he likes to do. rick wilson, a political pro. he is an author and he is a per scope and twitter enthusiast. we love all of it. thank you so much for coming on our broadcast. did a new voice just rise above the den among the democrats in the run for 2020? we ll ask two veteran reporters covering all the presidential developments when we come back. developments when we come back. i have a vision correction number,
construction funds that you mentioned could be addressed. well, the construction. there are two different parts. one is the army corps of engineers civil works project and yes, we would try to do both lawsuits as well as pass legislation. there is another way in which the congress will be dealing with that in a very short order. jerry nadler, the chairman of the judiciary committee will be working on a resolution to disapprove the emergency declaration that the president made. so all of these things are in play. the lawsuit deals with some of this, but there is an underlying constitutional issue here that we have to pay attention to. the congress of the united states for more than a year debated what to do with the wall. to build a wall and not build a wall and how much to spend on border security and the wall came to the conclusion both houses, a bill that provided $1.37 billion for border security including some money for walls and some very specific places where a wall could not b
of dollars on their out of control fast train without completion seems in charge. the failed project in california where cost overruns are record setting is hundreds of times more expensive than the desperately needed wall. the president expected the emergency declaration to be tied up all the way through to the supreme court. in the meantime he can start building new wall immediately. he does not need an emergency declaration to spend the following money. the 1.37 billion that he got from congress. the 601 million in the treasury forfeiture fund and money that is currently in the department of defense drug interdiction fund. he also does not need an emergency declaration but will take a little longer to reprogram 2.2 billion in the d.o.d. budget from where it is now over to the drug interdiction fund. he may get a challenge from congress on that. the only money that he needs the emergency declaration for