if you take all five of the bipartisan covid bills, that is about $32 billion. then about 45, 46 billion in the bill that the democrats passed by themselves this year for testing. the real question is, how is that money spent? how could we have a testing shortage now when at the end of last year we had what appeared to be a whole new series of tests coming on the market. i think my other question would be, if the federal government thinks they can buy 500 million at-home tests by the end of this month, where are those tests now? you don t have to look very hard to go to a drugstore and find out that they re out of those tests. you think if they were available, they would be on the store shelves right now rather than waiting somewhere for the federal government to buy 500 million of those tests. remember, this is 82, $83 billion that have gone into testing and they ve had all of
due to a lack of funding but rather a lack of planning. my question to you is has any of this funding, this close to $83 billion that was supposed to be used for testing been diverted for other purposes? senator collins, thank you for this question. testing remains a priority for this administration. all the work we ve done on testing has been to promote the priorities of expanding the number of testing sites available. expanding the type of tests that are available for use in the united states, expanding the supply of tests in the united states, and lowering the cost of tests. we use the money that came with the american rescue plan. $10 billion went to schools to
close to $83 billion that was supposed to be used for testing been diverted for other purposes? some of the funds have been used for mitigation efforts. for example, when children are crossing the border. dana: dr. fauci at one point caught on a hot mike calling a senator a after a heated exchange about the public availability of a financial disclosure form so that was a slight distraction today. i was going to start with jesse about it, geraldo, i m so distracted by your amazing haircut that i feel we have to go to you first and find out what you think about this, especially with people that are allies of the administration saying there is reset needed. geraldo: let me return the compliment. i think your hair is sensational, also. listen. i think, i got a dose of humility in the last couple of
financial year, we are forecast to spend £83 billion on debt interest, highest on record. and almost four times the amount we spent last year. that is why, mr speaker, we have already taken difficult decisions with the public finances and that is why we will continue to wait carefully calls for additional public spending. more borrowing is not cost or risk free. i said it last autumn and i say it again today, borrowing down debt down, only the conservatives can be trusted with taxpayers money. so mr speaker, our response to the immediate crisis in ukraine has been unwavering. but we must be equally bold in response to the deeper and more fundamental challenge putin
then hovering around above and below 2% for subsequent years. at the uk is to spend £83 billion on debt interest in the next year, which was four times i think he said that last year, and £500 million of new money for household support fund which brings it up what was your overall impression, faisal? , , faisal? there is interesting measures faisal? there is interesting measures but faisal? there is interesting measures but the - faisal? there is interesting measures but the figure i faisal? there is interesting. measures but the figure that faisal? there is interesting - measures but the figure that courses through all of this is the very high inflation which affects everything, it affects how much borrowing there is, it affects obviously the debt interest payments too, and we have this, you know, it s reached 9%, pretty extraordinary stuff. in terms of the tax rise, that is going ahead. essentially injuly, after three months, half of it gets given