Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, Breaking News and international stories. That he had been he had testified Behind Closed Doors with the House Intelligence Committee and apparently forgot about that meeting. I think it strains credulity to believe he forgot about that meeting. So what might bob muellers investigators be doing now . Because miss davis is close to him personally and professionally, theres been some reporting that, for example, she would keep his schedule. Of course, the investigators are going to want to deal with her to see what kind of meetings roger stone was taking. Even more importantly, to see if before his testimony to the House Intelligence Committee he had been speaking with her about the meetings he had taken. When you uncover evidence like that, it significantly undercuts a claim that i just forgot about meeting with that particular russian. So there are all sorts of reasons for muellers Investigative Team to want to
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bill to the president s desk. and if the final vote tally was announced late last night the energy in the house chamber was electric. on this vote the yeas are 228 and the nays are 226. the motion is adopted. all right, so that cheering there signified passage of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill which will allocate $550 billion of new spending into transportation projects, the utility grid and broadband including $110 billion for roads, bridges and other major projects. $666 billion for passenger and freight rail and $65 billion for broadband. now, this concludes nearly nine months of political maneuverings and gameman sship and delivers a huge win to the president who touted the legislation s importance just this morning. watch. a once in a generation
voted late last night to send the bipartisan infrastructure bill to the president s desk. as the final tally was announced late last night, the energy in the house chamber was electric. on this vote the yeas are 228 and the nays are 226. the motion is adopted. [ cheers ] all right, so that cheering there signified passage of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill which will allocate $550 billion of new spending into transportation projects, the utility grid and broadband, including $110 billion for roads, bridges, and other major projects. $666 billion for passenger and freight rail and $65 billion for broadband. now, this concludes nearly nine months of political maneuverings and gamesmanship and delivers a huge win to the president who touted the legislation s importance just this morning. watch.
picture. despite economic growth, the budget deficit rose from 6$666 billion to $782 billion. it is the third con sesecutive increase since federal revenue essentially flat lined. tax revenue fell some 31% as companies took advantage of the new lower tax rates. government spending increased by an estimated 3%. let s turn to business for a moment. global markets were dragged down by china as the ongoing trade fight with the u.s. continues to stall its economy. what is the latest? so the chinese central bank has cut the reserve requirement ratio for its banks. this ratio is intended to inject
screen so you can see where it s been. during the last year of the obama administration, the annual budget deficit, $587 billion. first year of the trump administration, went up to $666 billion. it s probably going to be about 700 or 800 billion this year. in 2019, the congressional budget office is already projecting a $1 trillion annual budget deficit here in the united states. whatever happened to the conservative republican doctrine of a balanced budget? did you really have to rain on this parade? first of all, let me say one thing about these numbers being a little disappointing. that s been the headline all day. just one thing. they revised upward the numbers from the previous two months by about 60,000. so that s a really good number. look, what i used to always say to donald trump about these deficit numbers by the way, let s face it, under obama the debt did go up by $10 trillion. it s not as if well, there was a great recession in 2008.