He had a republican support. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order before we get started i want to give her deepest condolences of those impacted by the tragic shooting in florida our hearts go out to all victims and loved ones you are in our prayers. The committee is honored to welcome him stephen min nguyen following the Budget Proposal from the Treasury Department we appreciate your time and look forward to your testimony our communion committees annual meeting we have a lot of important work ahead of best when you were here last year you told us the number one priority was Economic Growth for america now we share that priority especially on tax reform. Last year working together with you President Trump in the senate to successfully overhaul for the first time in 31 years years with the tax cuts and jobs act we have a to deliver more jobs and taxes with paychex to americans nationwide
Bipartisan policy center on the possibility of a Government Shutdown at midnight tonight. We will discuss the mix of politics in the olympics with eric xoma eric host the federal government will shut down in 17 hours a month the house and the net vote deal with the issue. Including nancy, want to see a deal for dreamers. She was speaking for eight hours and seven minutes, the longest address and house history, to drive home the point. This is washington journal. In the first hour, your thoughts on the price tag, the issue surrounding the budget deal, and other related issues. Here is how you can call us. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. For federal workers, your thoughts are welcome, 202 7488003. You can post on our twitter feed, cspanwj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Post has aton breakdown of these increases that could happen. Reportingvan substantial increases would incur for military and the mystic spending. Previous spending lim
Schedule information, well bring you more about the budget bill from todays washington journal. Ders. We are one of the few think tanks that proactively works towards bipartisan policymaking. Were looking for good policies that have a chance of passing on capitol hill. There are a lot of organizations focusing on policy favorable to one side or the other. Nonpartisan think tanks that come up with policies that are not partisan in nature. We are trying to find policies they both can agree on. Host the Senate Majority leader minority leader were touting the fact they came up with this deal. What does it do for the budget . Guest there are three good things about this deal. First, it avoids a shutdown. A shutdown is something no one benefits from. It has real harm to real americans that rely on the federal government in their everyday lives. And it makes us look like a laughingstock to the rest of the world. The second thing it does is it puts the budget process on a sustainable path for
Companies will meet today to thrash out a rail deal nestle says it will speed up share buybacks and pursue external Growth Opportunities as the Swiss Company pledges to improve margins and cut costs. Good morning, everyone its tuesday glad youre with us once again we have another jam packed show. Lets kick things off with a look at the equity markets youre onehour into the trading session. Were fairly even steven at this point. The latest escalation in the war of words between north korea and the u. S. Is not helping. We are largely brushing that off. Stoxx 600 is close to session highs. Safe havens are seeing inflows are gold, the yen and the swiss. Markets one by one, the xetra dax is just clinging on to the flat line, off by 5 points ftse 100 off by 0. 2. Cac 40 up by 0. 1 . When it comes to sectors, a couple interesting things to tell you about oil is not doing too badly up 0. 3 this as brent is moving closer to the 60 a barrel mark. Tech seeing underperformance. You have it down b
Gentlemen. Thank you so much for coming to the American Enterprise institute. Im fred kagan, the direct of the critical project here at aei. And if it is my great honor and privilege to lead this panel, discussing report which is just been released by my colleagues, matt mcinnis, the future of irans security policy, Available Online at aei. Org and where these beautiful copies as well if anyone would like one of those. We have a Magnificent Panel today. We are thrilled to have Lieutenant General tom trask, Vice Commander of headquarters u. S. Special Operations Command in washington, d. C. , and vice admiral retired mark fox, formerly Deputy Commanding general of the nested Central Command along with matt to talk about the report. Without further ado i will turn it over to matt. Thank you, fred. Thank you, general trask and admiral fox and fred, for frankly every thing here at aei yourself put this event together. As well as all the people behind the scenes for the past two, 2 years th