going to need boosters without the data. well, the government agreed, and they have 400 million dollars prepurchased with government tax dollars. that s more than the number of people in the united states, and the fda expert panel basically voted a vote of protest, and it was against the political pressure that the fda s been under saying that there s insufficient data. jon: it sounds like this is a case where the science is actually winning out over the politics. it is an inspiring moment for science to see scientists push back and say look, this is not the way the process works. you don t buy the vaccine, tell us it is going to be needed and prepare the public and create this expectation without the data being there. my fear, jon, is that it s distracting from our message right now, where we ve got to be united and let non-immune adults, adults without vaccination immunity or natural immunity to get vaccinated quickly as delta rips through
harvey is coming to an end. a move that can have a major impact on the up coming senate election in florida. phil keating has more from miami. for these puerto rican hurricane maria survivors, charity food give aways are still critical. this weekend they will need to find more help and a new place to live. fema s not going to pay for their hotel rooms anymore. this impacts about 500 households, 400 of them puerto ricans now living in florida the rest are in texas, survivors of hurricane harvey. dozens of activists protested wednesday calling on republican florida governor rick scott to get fema to extend the housing benefits. for the past nine months, since the hurricanes raked the island, fema has been paying for the survivors hotels. to date it spent more than 400 million dollars on shelter
victims of hurricanes maria and harvey is coming to an end. a move that can have a major impact on the up coming senate election in florida. phil keating has more from miami. for these puerto rican hurricane maria survivors, charity food give aways are still critical. this weekend they will need to find more help and a new place to live. fema s not going to pay for their hotel rooms anymore. this impacts about 500 households, 400 of them puerto ricans now living in florida the rest are in texas, survivors of hurricane harvey. dozens of activists protested wednesday calling on republican florida governor rick scott to get fema to extend the housing benefits. for the past nine months, since the hurricanes raked the island, fema has been paying for the survivors hotels. to date it spent more than 400 million dollars on shelter
deduction in that because frankly i think it is 80% of the benefit goes to people who are earning over 100,000. i know people would draw the line at who is rich in different places but again i agree, pop you populist, the state and local deduction. they announced the new rates, to end up with 12%, 25%, and 35%. populist or elitist? absolutely elitist. when you take a look at what s happened to the distribution of income in this country over the last few decades, it is incredibly how top heavy it is. it is amazing how much the federal government and federal reserve has helped the top 1%, maybe even the top 1/10 of 1%. that casts down on kind of the legitimacy of all that income at the top. it is incredible how top heavy the distribution has become. if anything, we should have higher tax rates. why should someone who is making $430,000 a year, a family making that kind of an income, be in the same tax bracket as somebody making 4 million or 40 million or 400 million dollars a year?
or 400 million dollars a year? i think i agree with you on that. and the thing i couldn t believe when they were trying to present this as a plan that helps working people, not the rich, very much part of the president s message on this, is to increase the rate for the poorest and reduce it for the richest. i don t understand how they got themselves in that position. i don t know if it will survive. i agree. i think this one is elitist. let s hear what that means. very nice. [laughter] this one is very close to my heart, i ve been going on about this for a long time, the corporate tax reduction from 35% also down to 20% and the lower rate for the repatriation of corporate money overseas. populist or elitist? i think it is a tough one to answer actually. 35% is a high corporate tax rate of course their effective tax rate is much lower because of all the loopholes. i can understand bringing down the legal tax rate and closing those loopholes. in that regard i think that s