strong deterrent, i wouldn t worry about this step. martha: that s growing concern about the amount of money going into this. the president just gave another half billion dollars, about 113 billion has committed in this effort. what would you say to the american people some of whom look at the situation on our southern border and a closer scale in east palestine said all right, we have enough to focus on here. why are we spending all of this money on their border? well, one thing is that the white house needs to improve its messaging here. this isn t new money. this is the same money that the congress appropriated in december. biden is just announcing that we re going to spend more of that, going to spend more of that. it s not an increase of what is already there. the second is that if ukraine falls and putin takes over ukraine, we re going to have a much more expensive bill defending nato countries that
uhh.nope. intuit quickbooks helps you manage your payroll taxes, cheers! with 100% accurate tax calculations guaranteed. president biden heads up to capitol hill tonight for his state of the union. the white house says he will tell american people the state of the economy is strong. that is one thing that you will hear directly from the president, that core part of any viable economic vaenstrategy ne to include how you will keep lowering costs. he will outline how to do that including building on the prescription drug reforms to give more people the relief from prescription drugs, building on proposals that we have put in place to for example lower cost of child care, lower the cost of caring for an elderly parent. so that also reduces a family s
ceiling, that this is not guaranteed that this economic progress continues, it is contingent on congress working together and making sure that these things must pass things are in fact passed. and i think that he will make the point that we re investing in america, we re giving breathing space and lowering the deficit at the same time. of course the deficit adds up into the national debt. so he will try to make the case that we re going in the right direction even with debt and deficits. and there is also the optics that are so important. you have the parents of tyre nichols attending along with families of eovaldi smoothing victims. so this is him highlighting policing and guns in america. yeah it is a question of how much he will do that. every state of the union is a statement of priorities and particularly as you know this president going into potentially a re-election campaign, policing
balance sheet challenges and also help more parents, more women work. those policies would help to continue the progress that we have seen. recent polls show the americans are pessimistic about the economy and the president faces low approval ratings. let s bring in our political analyst jackie kucinich. the president is to strike an optimistic tone but not appear tone deaf to the people who say they just don t feel it. and that is something else that they said at the podium, that the president will try to acknowledge that there is a lot of economic anxiety but there is a real reason for optimism. but i think the elephant in the room or over his shoulder is with kevin mccarthy and republicans taking over the house, that the progress he believes is innate could be derailed by not passing the debt
is something that we ll be watching for. and about china as well. he said he hadn t changed materially what he was going to say about china. he wants to hold china responsible, and he also will talk i m sure about leveling the playing field and protecting american workers which was already on the books for him. and this caught our attention in the new york times, this opinion piece says that biden has been a great president, he should be celebrated on tuesday, but he should not run again. that is a conversation that is happening in democratic circles an political circles no question, we ve seen some of this polling. what do you make of that part of the debate? tonight he is going to try to appear energized, right, to sort of put some of that chatter to rest i suppose. i think what you hear when you talk to the president s advisers, the president believes that he has a pretty strong track record. his first two years in office. again we ll hear a lot about