which cost nearly £40 billion but mps says hasn t had a clear impact . and the fallout from the royal interview continues. the tv presenter piers morgan says he stands by his criticism of meghan markle after he quit his own tv show due to thousands of complaints. we begin in the us, where the house of representatives, the lower house of congress, is expected to pass a major stimulus package. it is worth $1.9 trillion. the plan was approved in the senate on saturday despite every republican voting against. here are the pictures from the house of representatives. it very much locate will pass on party lines. before the vote, there was a debate for several hours. this is what we heard from one democratic congresswoman. this is a historic day. it is the beginning of the end of the great covid depression. it also marks the end of a decades long successful battle by big corporations and the super rich in this country for trickle down economics. the idea that the rich getting ri
president biden. unlikely to draw republicans vote in chamber. 40% say she support the bill they support the bill. but republicans felt they were left out of the process. it didn t have to be this way. could have got bipartisan approval and support but the speaker decided to go in another direction. f now, there certainly can be legitimate reasons not to like this current relief bill like there were legitimate reasons republicans and democrats didn t like the last one. which passed in december and cost $900 billion. feeling left out of the process was listed as a reason then, too. few leaders making decisions without significant input from members and feeling rushed but it passed by wide margins it passed because the whole out weighed the individual parts people didn t like. 359 votes in the democratic controlled house and 92 in the republican senate. it was largely bipartisan, same with the first major covid relief package that cost nearly a year ago, the one that cost
weekly jobless benefits that goes through september. there is expansion of tax credits affordable care act subsidies. and there s also funding for schools, states, and vaccines and a lot more as well. here s how an eligible family of four earning under $150,000 a year, couple earning $96,000, i should say, with two children, would receive here. each person gets $1,400, plus there is a $3,000 tax credit for each of the two children age 6 or older. the total help for this family is going to be more than $11,000. still not a single republican in the house is expected to vote for it in the coming moments as was the case in the senate. i call upon my republican colleagues to stop their march madness and show some compassion for their constituents who are less than wealthy. i ve heard people across the country say this bill today is costly, corrupt, and liberal. it s a laundry list of left-wing priorities that predate the pandemic and do not meet the needs of the american famil
awesome, thank you. my pleasure. mark: i look at government. government you look at the constitution. our government is supposed to be limited, constitution of shed up with checks and balances, then we have the bill of rights that protects the individual, and the 9th amendment, in tenth that talks about federal implement ism, thesystem is set up to proe individual, recognizing there is a circle of liberty around the individual that the government cannot pep penetrate. now i look at government today, jason, massive taxing, massive spending. massive controlling. massive redistribution. massive transforming. we warding search citizen rewarding certain citizens, punishing certain citizens, political party in my view, particularly democrat, gaining power, expanding powers. i would be you re curious. what happens to the individual, all this power and energy and resources and focus is on the expansion and of the federal government. mark, you hit on the crisis that we re havi
jason witlock how are you. awesome, thank you. my pleasure. mark: i look at government. government you look at the constitution. our government is supposed to be limited, constitution of shed up with checks and balances, then we have the bill of rights that protects the individual, and the 9th amendment, in tenth that talks about federal implement ism, thesystem is set up to proe individual, recognizing there is a circle of liberty around the individual that the government cannot pep penetrate. now i look at government today, jason, massive taxing, massive spending. massive controlling. massive redistribution. massive transforming. we warding search citizen rewarding certain citizens, punishing certain citizens, political party in my view, particularly democrat, gaining power, expanding powers. i would be you re curious. what happens to the individual, all this power and energy and resources and focus is on the expansion and of the federal government. mark, you hit on