making republicans show that they have no plan in response. plus, alarming suggestions tha the administration might b taking a right turn on immigration. and why are republicans so afraid to blame trump for th events of january 6th? i am julián castro, let s ge started. spring is right around the corner and joe biden i breaking out his gordon shares the president formally unveile his new budget proposal this week, aiming to cut the federa deficit by projected three trillion dollars over the next decade in part through a new 25% ta on billionaires. other provisions of the plan the corporate tax rate would increase from 21% to 28% there is an increase in capita gains taxes along with it, and to the interest loophole tax hikes and gas companies an acre tailing of covid relate spending now, to be clear, no one in th white house is saying that republican controlled houses will actually adopt presiden biden s budget and its current form, there will be plenty o wrangling and negoti
it comes after easyjet announced plans to cut more flights over summer. a setback for french president emmanuel macron as he loses his majority in parliament after elections over the weekend. a report into grooming and child sexual exploitation in oldham between 2011 and 2014 finds there were serious failings in the handling of some cases by the council and police. in sport, a first major trophy for england s matt fitzpatrick who s won the us open. and.up close and personal we have a special report from uganda on a successful conservation effort to increase the number of mountain gorillas he so close to us. whenever closest relatives on earth. one of our. wow! still no sign of a deal to avoid a strike. so, today, network rail has set out a plan for the limited number ido i do think it is important that we send out a message early this week that industrial action is likely to proceed and therefore people should take sensible preparations now because there is no point in g
the 16 committee, hinting at criminal acts by the former president and his posse. mark garland says no one including trump is about the law. well, is he about to prove it? this is american voices. we begin this hour with the misogynistic politics of the republican party. well, sexism is nothing new in american politics. the lasting effect of trumpism continues to fuel absurd attacks against women. this weekend, in a conference for young conservatives, florida congressman matt gates called abortion rights protesters, disgusting, and unattractive. and said, quote, nobody wants to impregnate them. now, it s not surprising and matt gates said this. he has said something like this before. he will likely do it again. and what i generally don t like to reward the congressman from florida with the attention he clearly so desperately craves, which was striking to me was the cheers from a crowd that reports to be the youthful future of the gop. this behavior, a move right out o
what s the update there? reporter: yeah, lester, that s right. you know, the house has already passed legislation that would force the chinese company that owns tiktok to sell off its stake in the company within six manned in the united states. lawmakers are g extending that window of time whermpany would have to divest in the company to one year. the six-month bill currently stalled in the senate. this new bill up for a vote this weekend is expected to pass. that s despite an tiktok to prevent the legislation from becoming law. lester. all right, ank you. in new york, n protests r more than 100 peop encampment set up by demonstrators. an late developments. reporter: it s day columbia univers demonstrat campus and off app to grow.o] student protesters et up new encampments on the new
the sheer number of people hasrh overwhelmed border patrol who don t have the resources to address the crisis. fo has beenmeluzin covering the story from brownsville, texas. here s what he found.ound wot one of the biggest single groups of migrants we have everg seenrant crossing the border illegally, hundreds upon hundreds of them gathering in a line for processing, almostl t all of them single adults, moste of them adult men , not seeing a whole lot of families orlittl little kids anymore. an brbrownsville, the hot spot on the border right now is the rio grande valley sector. is dealing with thousands ofgs illegal crossings every single day. but administration is not about worried about the collapse of t our southern border. the white house has told the public that president biden would veto a house gop rell that aims to restrict asylum and build more border wall . they literally want our border secured. . senator tim scott of south carolina has worked a loworkedt on this issue and