Table. I have here the Government Accountability Office Document that nations fiscal health. May 2023. Issued a couple weeks ago, this was issued to every leader in congress by the Executive Branch. The gao is one of the best of the entities our government has, what do they say. Why do we care. It says balance of current revenue, resolve in debt growing faster than the economy, thi this is unsustainable. The government never writes reports like this or speaks like this. It continues cbo, has stated high and rising federal debt is a fiscal crisis. Underlying conditions driving unsustainable fiscal outlook post, social challenges have not addressed. They are trying to say, the economy could collapse. Could collapse. They go on they are saying were not at war, The Ethe Econo Economics Balancedded 3 Out Of Last 4 years. For example, debt held by public, grew during economic expansion of june 2009 to february 2020, it did not grow during the economic expansion from March Of 1991 to march of
paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, i m paul gigot. the remaining presidential candidates are making hair closing arguments in new hampshire ahead of that state s first in the nation primary on tuesday with recent polls showing nikki haley in second place behind donald trump and ron desantis coming in a distant third. the former president is stepping up his attacks on haley as he looks to build on his win in iowa with a knockout blow in the granite state. here are trump and haley trading fire this week. the people behind nikki haley are pro-name testy, they re pro-china, their pro-open borders. don t kid yourself. pro-war and they re pro-biden. we don t want more of the same with the trump-biden thing. we don t want more 80-year-olds in d.c. we don t want for the more of the same where both of them are distracted by investigations and all these other things. paul: joining the panel, columnists dan dan henninger kim strassel andtorial board member kyle peat
ukraine, and those of a russian spy base in cuba. mike gallagher of wisconsin joined me now, chairman of the house select committee on china. welcome, good to see you again. you wrote this week for my newspaper that the administration is pursuing zombie engagement. what do you mean? reporter: like a zombie in a horror movie, rising from the grave the biden administration is bringing back diplomatic and economic engagement from the dead. there are three risks to this approach, the first, even to get to the negotiating table the biden administration is slow rolling steps to defend ourselves from chinese coming is party aggression like ending expert licenses to while away, sanctioning officials engaged in genocide or transparency when it comes to the spy base in cuba. the second is because biden is afraid of provoking xi jinping and the relationship spiraling out of control, we incentivized the ccp to act, no matter what we do and the third and most basic concern is that it is
the world on january 15th. seven days left before iowa, and the gop field is warning voters, your first chance could be your last chance. i don t think donald trump ultimately can win an election. these polls are garbage. if donald trump wins iowa and new hampshire, it s over, guys. reminding iowans, they set the pace. iowa knows how to do this. you tell the country where we should go. but did those warnings come too late to knock out the runaway favorite? we are leading by a lot, but you have to go out and vote. we have to put big numbers up, really big numbers. no one knows until the first ballots are cast, so with the days dwindling, now is the time for closing arguments. we have reporters all over iowa with what voters are thinking and the sharpest campaign minds on what the candidates are promising. what will work? this is how to win 2024. good to be with you, i m katy tur in for chris jansing, the iowa caucuses are one week from today. let us remind yo
reporting to special counsel jack smith will square off in front of a three-judge pam of the court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. at issue whether trump has immunity for conduct he undertook as president or cannot otherwise face prosecution because it would represent double jeopardy. that s the legal issue. but what s most important here is the timing. trial court judge has determined she can t move forward until this issue is resolved. she entered an order on december 13 saying trump s appeal automatically stays any further proceedings that would otherwise move the case toward trial. but that stay could be lifted after the outcome of tuesday s argument. for sure, the losing side is going to appeal to the supreme court after perhaps first asking for the first court of the appellate court to hear the matter on bond. the losing party has 90 days to ask for supreme court review. as i detailed before, smith is eager to get trump tried before the election. trump, on the other ha