and gas prices have gone through the roof. this is the result of biden-general is rated policy. what s really important is that president biden is actually making every decision that you absolutely should not make when you re in the middle of a conflict and you re watching what s going on. he needs to get american energy roaring back by making certain regulatory decisions. and, obviously, his decision earlier that he made about the nord pipeline is one of the items that triggered putin, that empowered putin to do some of the things that he s done. maria: yeah. a.g., the president just came out with a $5.8 trillion budget to proposal. it increases spending at the irs almost 20%, and it increases spending on defense by 4% which is a decline compared to inflation. we ll get into the budget and the new rules from the securities and exchange commission when we come right back. i m with a.g. morrissey. stay with us. hey. it s our former broker carl.
late on friday the biden administration confirmed it is revoking title 42. i spoke with the president of the border council right before the president made that assessment, and he predicted what s to come. here s brandon jumped with. watch thisment. this is a scary situation, and it s just getting scarier by the day because this administration will not enact policy that will allow us to protect the border. maria: so, senator, you ve been on the ground there at the border. what can you tell us? if what has struck you most? maria, i was here friday. i ve been this is my third day here on the border. i was here friday evening when they put together what they call the evening muster. the leadership came out that, indeed, the president of the united states decided to lift the title 42. that s the last tool they have left to send people back across the border. there was just a complete cloud of depression. that s the last tool left.
planning to release up to 180 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve in the if next six months to push gasoline prices lower, but this is the third time he has tapped the reserves, and after the first two times, prices shot back up after of only a few weeks. joining me now is the attorney general of west virginia, path rick morrissey. west virginia patrick morrisey. a.g., welcome. your reaction to biden s plan to release oil from the reserves. first of all, maria, thank you very much for having me on. and i think that president biden s entire administrative policy from day one has been to put american energy last. it s really been russia first, america last central. you saw that with canceling of the keystone pipeline, you saw that with respect to the moratorium on oil and gas drilling and coal mining. you saw that with respect to his climate change policy that seems to put all our foreign competitors first. and now he wonders why inflation