high winds and brutal cold. buffalo getting a stunning 40 inches of snow and could see more today. at least 12 people dead in the area. new york governor kathy hochul is a buffalo native. used to rough winters but not like this. this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo s long storied history of having battled many battles, many major storms. buffalo s airport is set to remain closed until tuesday. 3100 flights were canceled christmas day nationwide and more than 1,000 have already been can elide today. charles watson is live at atlanta international airport. hi, charles. good morning. today is looking to be just as busy here in atlanta and at airports across the country. it is 9:00 and check out the long lines that have accumulated at the delta check-in counters. this is the scene, large crowds we re seeing all over the airport leaving the real possibility that today could be a miserable one for folks who are trying to make it onto flights a
and $3 million for an lgbtq museum in new york city, 3 million for be friendly highways, not sure what that is. $65 million to the u.n. relief agency that has a history of promoting terrorism and producing materials anti-semitic materials. it will add also 2.65 trillion to our debt over the next ten years, about $20,000 per family. julie: the pork-packed spending bill is outrageous if you look at it. i m curious if half of those who voted for it read through it. family planning where population growth harms the environment. my favorite $70 million for salmon. the be friendly highways, i don t like bees. i don t know, stay away from them. this is what democrats wanted to
infrastructure. let s pull out the core infrastructure that everybody wants to do. that was $550 billion out of the 2.65 trillion and let s take all the tax increases out of it. we did. that s what this is right now, this bipartisan package represents. the reason marc thiessen thinks it s good in terms of saving the filibuster is right now the 60-vote margin is necessary to get things done. under a filibuster it would go away. the democrats would be able to pass all sorts of bad legislation including making d.c. a state and changing the supreme court and so on. what the democrats have argued is nothing can get done with 60 votes? that s not true. it just has been done. we gave confidence to members like joe manchin and kyrsten sinema who don t want to get rid of the filibuster. they now have an argument. those of us who believe
$250 million program for invasive plant removal on major highways across the u.s. i don t know if that s in there or not. seems to me it s a local issue and not a federal issue. that s an aside. moderate democrats are pushing speaker pelosi to vote on this thing now. how do you game out 1.2 trillion over year and the potential for another 3.5 trillion bill voted on behalf of just democrats? how do you see that working, if at all? first of all, bill, i think marc thiessen is write. he is a conservator columnist who wrote this morning that the bipartisan effort shows you can get things done on a bipartisan basis. it is not joe biden s infrastructure package. it was done by republicans and democrats, moderates on both sides working together to how to take the biden proposal that was 2.65 trillion, with huge tax increases, the biggest tax increases in american history and a lot of stuff not core
throughment rich edson is joining us from wilmington, delaware where the president is spending the weekend. good afternoon, griff. when president biden returns to washington the white house says he ll be negotiating with republicans and democrats and a compromise on infrastructure. they re discussing a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal however there are stick being points, how to pay for this. democrats want tax increases and republicans want to use unspent covid relief funds. his own proposal, as you know, is a huge package, 2.65 trillion dollars with a $2 trillion of new taxes, particularly taxes on american businesses and american workers which makes no sense coming out of this pandemic. now, griff, as you mentioned, democrats are working on two tracks here, there s that bipartisan trillion dollar track, but also looking for a larger bill, something in the