$1.7 trillion. $800 million of it went down to customs and border protection but not to protect or to secure our borders, but to do things like pay for tents, pay for barbers, pay for transportation of these folks through our country. mike: garrett, what about that concern from congresswoman van duyne? just so folks know what title 42 is, it was a covid-era policy that essentially allowed border patrol agents to expel migrants who are flooding the border at record paces here. and what you re seeing is that the border patrol s being overrun in a lot of ways, and the bide biden administration doesn t seem interested in doing anything about it. but you have fentanyl coming across the border, you ve had multiple very dangerous terrorists attempt to cross here, so it s shocking to me that democrats don t want to fix this. as the congresswoman pointed out, it s also a very interesting that they ve said in their $2 the trillion omnibus
and funeral of pope pope benedict 16. pope benedict vxi. and there s no history in modern times of having a former pope, so there s no protocol. and right now there will be people, because right now the which is about a million mile that leads up to st. peter s is lined with barricades anticipating thousands that will be coming over the next few days. we are learning more about pope benedict s last moments of life. the emeritus pope died yesterday in his first floor apartment at the monastery in the vatican gardens. a source close to the vatican said benedict s last words were said in german, his native tongue, meaning jesus, i love you. pope francis celebrated the new year s day mass today only mentioning benedict in the prayers for the faithful. tributes from all over the world. president biden, a catholic, tweeted of benedict: he ll be
howard: joe biden has launched a media blitz to tout the his concern about inflation serving top officials on to the cable circuit and staging a photo op with jerome powell and treasury secretary janet yellen. my plan is to address inflation. it starts with a simple proposition, respect the fed. respect the fed s independence. mad cam secretary, was it a mistake to downplay this inflation risk? well, look, i think i was wrong then about the path that inflation would take. after first dismissing inflation as transitory then blaming it on putin, bide biden came out to make you think he really cares. guns are one of the serious crises. inflation may be the tough thest because it s really beyond the control of the president. howard: mollie, is the largely negative coverage of inflation going to be influenced by
expensive for him to take over twitter. musks has said he wants twitter to be a free speech platform, but critics fear that would only enable more hate and offensive posts. arthel: well, fox news is learning of some stunning new numbers from the southern border as customs and border protection said in a court filing yesterday more than 220,000 migrants were encountered last month. that s approximately 28% hire than march of last year. it also marks the highest monthly surging of migrants at the southern border under the bide biden administration. let s bring in ron vitello, former u.s. border patrol chief and deputy commissioner, also the former acting i.c.e. director. first, ron, how overwhelmed are border patrol agents? what s a manageable ray sew? for example ratio? for every 100 migrants, how many agents do you think need to make sure those migrants are put into the system for legal processing?
what else happened in 2020? joe biden won the presidency and ousted donald trump, and on biden s very first day in office he cancelled the permit for that pipeline. and while that sounds like a definitive thing honestly it set off what everybody expected to be a whole other round of years of fighting over this thing. but then today this lightning bolt finally arrived. a decade in the making. the keystone xl pipeline is officially dead, dead. the company that was building the pipeline said today it is pulling the plug. it is not going to try anymore. they said they will work with government agencies, quote, to ensure a safe termination of and exit from the project. tonight bill mckibben said this on line, just a reminder that ten years ago this summer when mass arrests began in the keystone fight 93% of insiders said the project would be approved. today tc energy, the pipeline