with most of america. they push this agenda and i think you will have upset folks saying why didn t you go after the best return? it doesn t eliminate this from being something you can invest it. it says the main criteria is goth the best rate of return. gillian: look at this. global assets projected to rise, investments in esg. in 2021 there were about 18 1/2 trillion dollars. by 2026, $33.9 trillion. that s a big increase. i wonder why you can t have both. why somebody can t have a financially responsible retirement portfolio that earns them money but also pays attention to important social issues? if it s a better return.
of citizens against government waste, and he says with the new year congress could take on a few new year s resolutions. there is five of them in first stop trillion dollar record spending inflation and covid relief infrastructure spending. don t spend $80 billion to hire irs but cup price controls with pharmaceuticals and restore american energy independence. all of those are great ideas but especially covid billions of dollars in waste and fraud stolen out of these monstrosities of spending during the covid relief effort. griff: tom with government waste has been doing this for decades. nobody is better at finding areas. there is actually in an op-ed to come up 555 recommendations for places to save $3.9 trillion over five years. how many of the administration take? we will find out. katie: one. griff: that would be a high
here right now. everybody knows that when joe biden walked into the oval office inflation was at 1.4%. get your head around that. 1.4% in january of 2021 and we see how it has moved up all alongside his policies. the covid relief package signed into law in march of 2021. inflation popped up. couple months later the democrats were pushing their $5 trillion spending package which they said was 3.9 trillion full of gimmicks. inflation rate kept moving higher. in november of 2021 they signed a $1 trillion infrastructure package. inflation kept creeping up. close to 8% by the time putin invaded ukraine which of course now takes us to 8.6% and most people expect it to get worse. much of that money has not been spent out of the covid relief package. many states were given hundreds of billions of dollars in money
american people cannot afford more taxes when they can t even afford to put food on the table, and the expenses today just to maintain where they were a year ago is $5,000 a year more today than it was last year. we have the energy in the ground, we need to use it. once again joe biden is too slow to respond to the needs of the american people. maria: yeah. but we re looking at the inflation timeline, and when joe biden became president, the consumer price index was at 1.4%. then he signed in the covid relief package and sent inflation to 2.6%. then in july the democrats were pushing that $5 trillion reconciliation package. they said it was $3.9 trillion, but it was full of gimmicks. the infrastructure package happened in november 20 20 the 2 the 1, and then, of course concern 20 the 21, and then, of course, we re at 8.3%. senator, you know there are things that cost much more than that. eggs, frequents, the price of eggs up for example, the
to each one s conscience. we ve already committed a great deal of money, and i know people are concerned that money is being well spent, and we should certainly take effort to oversee that carefully. at the same time, we ve got to take care of things at home first. maria: this administration has been spending like a sailor, we know that, and that s part of the reason we ve got the 40-year high of inflation. when president biden walked into the white house, the cpi, the consumer price index, was at 1.4%. that very index today is 598 is at 8. 3%. senator, what are you going to do as an elected official to get these numbers down? we know that by march of 2021 he signed in the $1.9 trillion covid relief money, flooding the country with money. that has so many ramifications. by july of 021, the democrats were proposing a $5 trillion package which they said was 3.9