Go for it. Bill makes you think about Election Night more than two months ago when david perdue in georgia fell by 3 10 of a vote to avoid a runoff. This is the payoff. Dana a lot of republicans didnt show up to vote. Thats what happens. More on this with Newt Gingrich in a moment. Griff jenkins live in washington will they go it alone . I think they are. Dana. Happy friday. Looks like a purely partisan path. History was made when Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tiebreaker advancing the 2 trillion relief plan. The yays are 50, nays are 50. The senate equally divided. The Vice President votes in the affirmative and the concurrent resolution as amended is adopted. This after 15 hours of votearama The Republicans forced a majority to add amendments. More than 850 were filed. In the end 41 roll call votes were taken. Among the ones that passed joni ernst to prohibit increasing the minimum wage during the pandemic. Another blocking Illegal Immigrants from getting Stimulus Checks as we
Reports on various topics. We just had one on student loans, for example. Then we do i host of scorekeeping functions. In support of the appropriations process. Tracking spending and helping Congress Figure out how much they are spending and how much bills will cost. Mr. Mcardle talk about who you answer to. Mr. Swagel we are a nonpartisan agency. We answer to the congress. We work through the two budget committees, the House Budget Committee and the Senate Budget committee, but we work for the entire congress. Generally our work is for the chairs and ranking members of the various committees of jurisdictions. If there is something on health care that would be in the senate for the finance committee or the health committee. And similarly in the house. And so in a sense we answer to all the members and support all the numbers equally on a nonpartisan basis. Mr. Mcardle all of the members are interested in your budget and economics outlook. What is the takeaway from that . Mr. Swagel the
Makeshift camera from home when i had to broadcast from home because i was in Covid Quarantine back in november. Because i had to do that back in november, i knew i could do this again so i just wheeled the whole setup back out again tonight. The roads are not fit for manor beast nor Cable News Hosts so, again, apologies for things looking a little higglety piggelty. Ill be back in the studio tomorrow night. January 2009, barack obama was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States with joe biden as his Vice President , in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. The Great Recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying Wall Street Collapse. The economy had been Hemorrhaging Jobs for months at a rate not seen since the Great Depression when President Obama was inaugurated. Unemployment was headed for 10 . The Wall Street Collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. People were hurting. People were very scared. And o
Quarantine back in november. Because i had to do that back in november, i knew i could do this again so i just wheeled the whole setup back out again tonight. The roads are not fit for manor beast nor Cable News Hosts so, again, apologies for things looking a little higgledypiggledy. Ill be back in the studio tomorrow night. January 2009, when barack obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States with joe biden as his Vice President , in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. The Great Recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying Wall Street Collapse. The economy had been Hemorrhaging Jobs for months at a rate not seen since the Great Depression when President Obama was inaugurated. Unemployment was headed for 10 . The Wall Street Collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. People were hurting. People were very scared. And one of the reasons americans had just elected obama and biden by a nearly 10 mill
So again, apologies for things looking a little higgltypigglty. No reason to worry. I will be back in the studio tomorrow night. Okay, january 2009, when barack obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States with joe biden as his Vice President , in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. The Great Recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying Wall Street Collapse. The economy had been Hemorrhaging Jobs for months at a rate not seen since the great depression, when President Obama was inaugurated. Unemployment was headed for 10 . The Wall Street Collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. People were hurting. People were very scared. And one of the reasons people had just elected obama and biden by a nearly 10 millionvote margin, and also given democrats control of the house and the senate, by huge margins, was that americans really desperately wanted the new government to dig the country out of the smoki