that is a huge win it is also one of the things that were recommended by the january 6 committee. it will ensure the vice president s role is ceremonial to prevent another january 6 insurrection from happening again. you see the major bills that were able to pass under democratic control of the house, senate and president biden quickly on this, that is expected to change in the second half of the biden administration rups republicans take control of the chamber and that prevents ability to pass legislation and increase the chances for investigations that republicans are planning to hold when you look at this $1.76 trillion omnibus, there was republican opposition. defense spending is higher than non defense spending in the piece of legislation it is a bill where americans would likely see the effects of
you don t have to call at it tax increase. it will take time to do. that is where you get your scratch. bret: there is so much talk about taxes but little talk about spending or cut to spending. george will wrote spending the main culprit because the federal revenue is $2.6 # trillion. spending is $3.76 trillion. we re spending $987 billion more than we would be if we increased bill clinton s last budget for inflation. and population growth. you can t tax your way out of this hole or grow your way out of the hole and get double digit growth for 20 years. you can t cut spending out of the hole either. you to have a blend. i agree with is that totally. there is so much let me tell you. look at the defense department. i love the sakerethness of that with my party.
through tax cuts that totaled a combined $2.7 trillion. when the tax cuts were set to expire in 2010, republicans announced they would happily let taxes rise and let unemployment benefits expire which would be unprecedented under such dire positions rather than raise taxes for the top 1 percent percent. they won that standoff leading to $225 billion in tax cuts for the top 1% just over the last two years. once the republicans took the house they moved quickly to vote for the ryan budget which passed the house the first time on a vote of 235-193. it would have cut taxes for those at the top even further. the ryan budget died in the senate. undeterred, ryan unveiled a second version of his budget. this one would have cut $1.76 trillion from the taxes of the top one-half of the top 1% over ten years. which brings us to the current campaign. during the republican primary every candidate in the field offered tax cuts that it turned
greta: and reb members of congress are a bit hot under the collar, firing off a strong message to the nation s governors, telling th the govers not to implement the changes. do governors agree? louisiana governor bobby jindal joins us. governor scott of florida told us he won t begin developing these changes. i m curious, louisiana, your state, do you intend to begin developing these exchanges? if not, why not? absolutely not. we declared a year ago we were not going to do the exchanges. we re not expanding our medicaid program. this is a huge mistake for the country, certainly for the state of louisiana. we need to do everything we can to repeal obamacare. greta, let s step back and realize what they re doing. in the middle of the greatest recession since the great depression, the president is creating another entitlement program. we can t afford the ones we got. $1.76 trillion in new spending,
greta: and reb members of congress are a bit hot under the collar, firing off a strong message to the nation s governors, telling th the govers not to implement the changes. do governors agree? louisiana governor bobby jindal joins us. governor scott of florida told us he won t begin developing these changes. i m curious, louisiana, your state, do you intend to begin developing these exchanges? if not, why not? absolutely not. we declared a year ago we were not going to do the exchanges. we re not expanding our medicaid program. this is a huge mistake for the country, certainly for the state of louisiana. we need to do everything we can to repeal obamacare. greta, let s step back and realize what they re doing. in the middle of the greatest recession since the great depression, the president is creating another entitlement program. we can t afford the ones we got. $1.76 trillion in new spending,