we can improve upon this. the senate will. i look forward to voting for it when it comes back. i hope we use the intervening time to replace the sequester in a smart way. bret: is this replacing the sequester? $982 billion as it is currently, the continuing resolution? it s not replacing it. the sequester comes in and you cut $85 billion of $3.6 trillion. this carries the sequester number forward. this gives the department of defense an mytary greater flexibility in how they go about the cuts. chris laid out his bill that he proposed numerous times but this is more taxes. the bill that the democrats propose that couldn t even get out of the senate that some democrats voted against it. that was going nowhere. this is an opportunity that had bipartisan support. move to the senate. can move us forward. remember, it met criteria that the president laid out last week that he said he could sign. bret: you are saying the republicans definitively are not going to move off the ball
kind of outreach working? it would have to be a moderate republican in a swing district that obama won. we can probably figure it out if we just looked at the results from the 2012 race. there s a handful of members that fit that profile and those are the targets. and while we re still talking about the sequester, we re looking ahead to what s coming next with the budget. republicans have ruled out this $982 billion plan to keep the government operating for the next six months. it would shift more than $10 billion to pentagon operations from other defense related accounts obviously trying to, you know, stave off some of the hurt from the sequester, prohibit holding facilities for cuts to holding facilities for illegal immigrants, $2 billion for embassy security, extend salary freeze. but it doesn t do anything, ryan, for some democratic priorities unlike headstart and so many educational programs. is this doa? is it a starting point for
week when he suggested the sequester was already costing teachers their jobs. in fact, it will be several more months before school districts feel the effects of the cuts. a new cbs news poll shows 38% of americans blame congressional republicans for failing to reach an agreement to avert those cuts. 33% hold the president accountable along with democrats. 19% say pocks on both parties home. a majority believe sequester cuts will effect them directly. the markets ignoring this. the dow gained another 38 points yesterday, closing at its highest level of the year. it s 37 points away from an all-time high. today both chambers of congress will discuss proposals to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month. senate democrats will meet to address their plan, while the rules committee in the house will take up a new $982 billion bill introduced by republicans yesterday to keep washington running through the end of the fiscal year. the bill would also soften the
. it wasn t just, it wasn t just tarp. it was 982 billion dollars worth of stimulus that went out the door and it wasn t just the bank bailout and everybody got a check and then started saying, hey, i need another one. and you don t this it fed is subs advertising salaries on wall street? and ben, i want you to put the exclamation point on this for us. i have to say what charlie gasperino just said was so brilliant my head is reeling. government is subsidizing both at the top end and bottom end and it s a terrible situation, work has got to become a very, very high priority in this country. en up next, the one thing that america s top money man can do for the sticker shock at the store. and the recovery efforts continuing in this hour after tornados ripped through the south and death toll devastating. did it have to be? something in this picture kept this family alive and now they re calling to make it
economic numbers from china is a jump in the european retail sales market. we re going to keep a close eye on those numbers all day long. hi, everybody. i m thomas roberts. upping the ante. one day after releasing their plan to keep the government up and running, republicans are blasting the president and democrats in the senate with just three weeks to go until the next big deadline. both chambers with congress will be working on rival stopgap measures. is in the senate, democrats will be working on their proposal to keep the funds flowing until the fall. in the house, truls committee will take up the 982 billion plan introduced by republicans yesterday. house speaker john boehner saying this in the last hour. the house, our goal is to cut spending. it s not to shut down the government. that s why we re going to move this cr this week and we would hope that the senate would take this bill off and move it quickly. the president on friday agreed that there s no reason to get into some