these companies have raised their prices by as much as 1,00. that s why i called on congress to crack down on and they are foreign owned. foreign owned shipping companies that raise their prices while raking in $190 billion in profit. lawrence: so, i mean, look at this. you got fuel up 106%. air fare 37%. hotels and motels 22%. it goes on and on and on. first of all, if you are explaining, you are losing. and, number two. they pick probably the most terrible person to explain the policies coming out of the administration but, it also goes down to the bottom line americans just don t care, they are going to blame the president. this is a president that promised to fix things that weren t actually broken. he broke them and they are going to hold him accountable. they don t care about the virtue
foreign owned shipping companies that raised their prices while raking in $190 billion in profits. will: he s playing the overt blame game. he has blamed at various times when we see rising prices inflation, he exclaimed big oil, he has blamed big meat, talking about meat processing is the reason for rising prices and now you hear him talking about big shipping identifying them as someone he would want to pop. if you wants to play the blame game, the number of items in your grocery basket or in your lifestyle that are going up is more than three. if you wants to blame big something he has to go to big air as well because price is up almost 40%, big hotels and motels lodz big butter up 20%.
there is $190 billion that was allocated for covid funds and a lot of that is still unspent and i would like to look into that to see if there is something we can use on those unspent funds to secure our schools. tammy: i ve been talking about that. that will expire in 2024, unspent 211 billion, 93% unspent. if that s your 190 billion, getting that reallocated, perhaps, congressman, you can lead the way on that. thank you all for joining me. joe, charlie, and congressman, coming up. in the midst of the horrible shooting, president biden signed an outrageous executive order on police reform. we will talk about it with leo terrell and stephen miller next.
from nicaragua to angola to south asia and afghanistan. drove the soviets out. now we have a new generation of freedom fighters that are fighting the russians. martha: it s a noble cause. seems like whenever anybody sticks their head up and says what if we do this in a fiscally responsible way, everybody says oh, we can t do that. we can t. we have 190 billion in waste and fraud in the covid program. we have billions of dollars that has been unspent in the covid program. i don t think it s so horrible to suggest that perhaps there is someplace else in the budget if we feel so strongly about this and obviously there s a consensus on it to find that money. this is the other question i have for you. we have been reluctant to allow ukraine to enter nato, right? that ship has sailed for now. now there s a war going on. we understand the article 5
billion. microsoft shed $190 billion. amazon has lost $173 billion. in just three days. but it is not just tech, of course. it s been broad based. banks, industrials, even energy stocks took a big hit yesterday, everyone as oil prices stay high and gasoline prices hit record levels again. joe and mika, the idea here is the markets are finally having to grapple with this notion that inflation could be persistent and the central bank has to fight it. that s the bigger evil at this point, guys. yeah. i remember back in 75, speaking of inflation, a bit younger gerald ford, his campaign people would send around buttons that would say, whip inflation now, win. what so many presidents found out, jimmy carter after him, it is hard for a president to do anything about inflation, other