california and undisclosed across the united states. stock repurchases for the s&p 500 hit an all-time high of $189 billion in the first three months of 2018. so far, the tax windfall is barely trickling down to america s workers who are barely hearing about wages, long-term wages, look at slow wage growth shareholders.ng the pockets of we re going to focus o that in the next few months. moments ago, former fbi agent peter strzok walked into the house judiciary committee and he s about to discuss his role in the russia investigation. and speaking of ruia, in the last hour, john bolden met with russian president vladimir putin. they re planned for a july visit by president trump. because there are options. like an unjection™ . xeljanz xr. a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough.
$189 billion in the first three months of 2018. so far trump tax cuts for companies is barely trickling down to the american worker. instead, it is lining the pockets of shareholders. ali, you lots of employees own stock. not people in the middle and bottom. and most of people are passive investors. half of americans, those 100% of whom work for a living, don t. and giving that one-time bonus is a kiss you get once. the reason it doesn t raise your base pay. you don t have to get that the second year. you don t get 3% or 2% on top of that. bos are slight of hand. a lot of people tweet and say i m happy to have my $1,000 bonus. i m happy for you. what would have been better would be a raise equal to $1,000 so the next year you ve already got that and your basal e salar
it is also going to approve $89 billion in hurricane and disaster relief, puerto rico, texas, florida, california wildfires and he is saying wait a minute, none of this is checked. all rand paul wanted was a vote on reimposing the sequestration spending caps. keep in mind the other issue at hand here. this bill only funds the government through march 23rd so if the house votes in the next hour or so to sync up with the senate a couple hours ago the government is only open through march 23rd and then you could have another fight over, say, immigration or daca or a border wall standoff. heather: when and how will it come up. this is meddlesome for house democrats and many of them are going to oppose it, something house minority leader nancy pelosi implored the house speaker, paul ryan to make a commitment, she was very frank in her language, she wanted him to, quote, man up, that was her term, and put a daca bill on the
the big five tech companies apple, amazon, facebook, google, microsoft have $457 billion in overseas subsidiaries. if you bring it all back stateside incentive spending 159 billion in taxes, the tariff is only 70 billion. that s 89 billion in added profit. now you know why during the third quarter of this year the tech company spent 25% more on lobbying than they did during the second quarter. listen to how the president sold this last week. you look at the great companies, apple and so many others. they have billions of dollars overseas that they want to bring back. now they are going to be able to bring it back and they will be spending that money right here and there will be jobs and other good things. it might be the other way around. might be lots of good things and then jobs. in 2004 when george w. bush had
the big five tech companies apple, amazon, facebook, google, microsoft have $457 billion in overseas subsidiaries. if you bring it all back stateside incentive spending 159 billion in taxes, the tariff is only 70 billion. that s 89 billion in added profit. now you know why during the third quarter of this year the tech company spent 25% more on lobbying than they did during the second quarter. listen to how the president sold this last week. you look at the great companies, apple and so many others. they have billions of dollars overseas that they want to bring back. now they are going to be able to bring it back and they will be spending that money right here and there will be jobs and other good things. it might be the other way around. might be lots of good things and then jobs. in 2004 when george w. bush had