Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon everyone, welcome to the National League both cities, its a pleasure to have you and what we call city hall away from your city, town or village in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents 19,000 city, towns and for being here because were releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. Youre interested in what is happening in cities all over america. Perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the fiscal nature of the data on our communities. You really want to hear about the pressures city leaders face every day in balancing their budget, dealing with issues, the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues. Or you just want to make sure that youre in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. For all of these reasons at its
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the National League of cities. My name is clarence anthony. Im the ceo and executive director of the National League of cities. Its a pleasure to have you in what we call city hall away from your city, town or village in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents 19,000 city, towns and for being here because were releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. Youre interested in what is happening in cities all over america. Perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the fiscal nature of the data on our communities. You really want to hear about the pressures city leaders face every day in balancing their budget, dealing with issues, the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues. Or you just want to make sure that youre in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates
Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon everyone, welcome to the National League both cities, its a pleasure to have you and what we call city hall away from your city, town or village in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents 19,000 city, towns and for being here because were releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. Youre interested in what is happening in cities all over america. Perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the fiscal nature of the data on our communities. You really want to hear about the pressures city leaders face every day in balancing their budget, dealing with issues, the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues. Or you just want to make sure that youre in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. For all of these reasons at its
today when democrats had to bail out republicans on a procedural vote that republicans claim they could pass on their very own. prior to that vote politico reported when asked if the gop would needd democratic help to pass this procedural measure, majority whip tom emmer said republicans are the ones running this place, and republicans will pass thean bills, and that s wh we are doing. but in the end republicans did not have the votes to pass that measure on their own. they needed 52 democrats to bail them out. now, both sides have faced opposition to voting to this deal. conservatives say it does not go nearly fars enough. progressives have argued the bill s impact on the poor and working class is too severe. but the character of that opposition is remarkably different. take for instance marjorie taylor greene, the fringe conservative for this now landed herself a place as one of speaker mccarthy s top allies. told she told reporters she was leaning towards voting for this b
impeached. do you think kevin mccarthy is going to havepe to pay the tab this, which is to say kowtow to the most conservative members of his conference in the days to come? are you at all concerned about what concessions he might have to make to them in order to hold ton to the speaker s gavel, for example? well, theer american people should continue to be concerned with the extremists that have been on full display and in many ways unleashed. marjorie taylor greene is front and center as a leader of the house republican conference, so is george santos if the default on america act passed with the support of george santos. and you ve got individuals totally out of control like santos, unfit to serve in the united states congress, but who have become an important part of the b fabric of what the modern day house republicans represent. that s unfortunate. as democrats we re going to continue to try to find common groundin whenever and wherever possible to put people over le politics,