bottom line and what happened last time, republicans pushed the democrats and said you got to stop spending, we have to cut the spending. remember, sandra, this administration has spent over $6 trillion. sandra: put the number on the screen, it s hard to fathom, taylor, how that is. government spending since president biden took office, now looking at $6.25 trillion. this will fall in the laps of the american people and huge welcome to you. great to have you on the fox team. nothing like a good debate to kick us off here, i m all here for it. i think jackie brings up a good point. a policy aspect, how do you rein in spending, use this sort of, call it an arbitrary number, a ceiling because it s movable, but i don t mean that lightly. but sort of a policy way to bring in spending, rein it in. from an economic standpoint, most economists, the good news,
so that seems to be one of the strengths of this treatment. ana. wow. well, keep us posted certainly. thank you, elizabeth cohen. we re getting new information about how effective covid vaccines have been at saving lives and money. researchers say the vaccines bree vicinitied more than 18 million hospitalizations in the u.s. and saved more than 3.2 million lives and more than $1.25 trillion, the medical costs as a tripledemic is swamping hospitals. a combination of covid-19, rsv and flu are pushing some facilities to the breaking point. cnn s stephanie elam has the latest. for awhile i was really worried about covid. reporter: anders had good reason to worry after an a or tick aneurysm in the thick of the pandemic. i had open chest surgery. reporter: he masked up and never caught covid until this month. i didn t feel like i was
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that said that half the americans expect the economy to get worse, not better. you can see it in the chart on the right, which compares sentiment about jobs to just general sentiment. you can see they track closely, closely, and suddenly they diverge. why do they diverge? americans know there are jobs, but they re unhappy about the economy, because of inflation and purchasing power. so in real life situation on the hill right behind us here, so joe manchin has been going around for the past couple weeks going, i m worried about inflation. you want to throw $3.5 trillion on. i m worried about inflation. i m worried about inflation with $1.75 trillion plus $1.25 trillion, close to $3 trillion. least been mocked, ridiculed, abused, from people in his party and also on twitter. do these charts suggest to you, and let s just say, you and i have been warning about inflation and debt for 125 years
a submarine deal. you would rather do that than go meet with the progressive caucus in the house. how bad is your life if you prefer that. [laughter] bret: let s turn there, harold, we saw what happened last night on capitol hill, the punt to next week there is still some thought that it might be two weeks. some people are saying some time before thanksgiving where this all gets ironed out. i mean, it s pretty ugly. it may still happen but it s ugly. thanks for having me on and i would agree with you. it s not the way, i m sure, he orchestrated or choreographed it but sometimes big time legislation is not choreographed. is not choreographable in the way you may like. at the end of the day, if they get this passed 1.57 trillion. you have 1.2, $1.25 trillion package for infrastructure, that s $3 trillion he would have gotten in the first year in the presidency. again, to your point, it has not been pretty.