his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd because of
already without doing too much. last year 40 year high in inflation to deep recession. other thing that happened. federal debt explodes by $1 trillion in five weeks since the deal suspending the debt limit became law. treasury department data total national debt 32.47 trillion on july 6th. 1 trillion more than the 31.47 trillion level seen last june essentially meaning with no debt ceiling in effect the borrowing jumped $350 billion in a single day. pretty stunning numbers and glazed over those numbers. it is so stunning, bret. we used to talk about this fiscal debt cliff in the 2008, 2009. all americans are really concerned about it. i remember looking at polls this was the number one concern. but because we didn t go off the cliff, i think we are all whistling past the graveyard these days. when we do go off of it, there is no return. this is the warning we need to be out there. by the way, we are talking about interest rates. our nation going from 200 billion a year to a trillio
paycheck to paycheck point meanwhile this president and chuck schumer have a death grip on the blank check. they are not fighting for the american people, shannon, they are fighting for status quo. status quo is bankrupting the country. republicans in the house and those in the senate that signed that letter refused to allow the status quo to continue. shannon: significant republicans and they been running the show spent a lot of money despite the talk about being fiscal conservatives for they brought up that check tampering here we are. what you all are proposing and asking thinking something past that will cost for drastic cuts. the bill calls for reducing overall discretionary spending by nearly 10% from 2023 until 2024. republican symington doubled the cuts and non- discrimination venting to achieve $1.47 trillion in annual spending target. essentially of creating brutal hunger games scenario. someone of these cuts come from?
paycheck to paycheck point meanwhile this president and chuck schumer have a death grip on the blank check. they are not fighting for the american people, shannon, they are fighting for status quo. status quo is bankrupting the country. republicans in the house and those in the senate that signed that letter refused to allow the status quo to continue. shannon: significant republicans and they been running the show spent a lot of money despite the talk about being fiscal conservatives for they brought up that check tampering here we are. what you all are proposing and asking thinking something past that will cost for drastic cuts. the bill calls for reducing overall discretionary spending by nearly 10% from 2023 until 2024. republican symington doubled the cuts and non- discrimination venting to achieve $1.47 trillion in annual spending target. essentially of creating brutal hunger games scenario. someone of these cuts come from?
everything on the table for everybody to sit down and do the work of the american people. in these talks, in these negotiations did kevin mccarthy or his emissaries ever say anything when it came to cuts or caps on medicare and social security? what we re talking about here, so everybody knows is spending fy-22 levels which would be $1.47 trillion, and let s all figure out how we re going to do it. all of it? let s sit down on discretionary spending. what we ve been very clear is, we re not going to touch the benefits going to people relying on them under social security and medicare. we all have to be honest about sitting at the table and figuring out how to make those work, how to deal with defense spending and non-defense discretionary spending. we have to spend within our means. remember also in this deal, this was about empowering people, rank-and-file members. we ve got the 72-hour rule to rebuild. we ll be able to offer amendments on the floor of the house.