he says his agency doesn t share information about ongoing matters. let s get right to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. this tension between the lawmakers and the inspector general has been going on for a while, but it seems to be escalating. it s an ongoing battle. we re seeing this escalation, between two top democrats, bennie thompson, carolyn maloney, with the dhs ig and now they re cuesiaccusing the ig of obstruction. is this goes back to the claim that the ig failed to notify congress that these texts were gone from the secret service from that period around january 6th. right after that, thompson and maloney demanded he recuse himself from any investigation into the secret service. now they re taking it a step further, saying he really hasn t cooperated with them in the past several weeks so they re writing this in the letter they just sent today. they re saying, in response to the committee s requests, you have refused to produce responsive documents a
west is water conservation. every single drop counts from here on out. wow. bill, thank you for explaining all that. the situation is obviously very dire. they need to find a way to compromise. thank you very much for explaining it to us. top of the hour on cnn newsroom. it s good to have you. this hour we expect to see the president at the white house. he ll sign a bill into law that one adviser calls a culmination of the administration s effort towards building the economy. the inflation reduction act as it s called makes historic investmentes in the fight against climate change. it gives medicare more negotiating power with prescription drug companies. and it imposes new taxes on some of america s biggest corporations. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlyn collins joins us live now. so democrats consider this a significant victory. they didn t get everything they wanted here. it s not everything they wanted. and it s very different than the build back bette
continue to talk to each other. but there is a round of automatic cuts that will kick in, tier 2 a they re called. it receded so low now that arizona will will see another 21% of their water supply cut. this is a place where alfalfa and cotton farmers are getting paid to let the fields go fall low this year because of the water cuts. nevada will see an 8% cut. mexico, 7% cut. and was of some sort of fudgy math, because of a lot of water that was left up in lake powell and didn t come down to meade, they re counting it as if it were in meade and as a result of that accounting, california will not have to do its first mandatory cuts this coming year. there was some hope in the upper basin states that california, the lower basin users, the big cities, farmers, would start to cut more. that hasn t happened yet. but here we are, victor, allison, year 23 of a mega drought. there is no real relief in sight. and so the watch word of the future to live in the american