today vice president kamala harris made history at west point. she became the first woman to give the commencement address in west point s 221-year history. it also comes 75 years after the first women joined the military. an historic marker not lost on the vice president. you stand on the broad shoulders of generations of americans who have worn the uniform, including many barrier breakers and trailblazers. also today in cincinnati, president biden s budget director shalanda young, who is one of the debt ceiling negotiators, gave the commencement speech at xavier university. if you haven t read, we are having a few budget problems in washington, and the president gave me a two-hour break to come
budget problems for interest rates are rising. they were low for very long period of time. next note new taxes. he broke that. finally the economy is a weirdo. record low unemployment 3.4%. the present created more than 12 million new jobs or 10 million job openings supposedly. how do we balance the good news and there is also the bad news. the key here the bad news is inflation. inflation rates at levels we have not seen since the 1980s last year. and that is why a lot of american households are unhappy. that is why president biden s approval ratings are very low. that is why the federal reserve is raising interest rates. and it is why some people think we might be heading toward a
die somewhere around statuary hall before it gets to the senate. so it will be dead on arrival. the u.s. government is now over $31 trillion in debt and interest payments alone on that debt each year could soon be higher than the defense budget each year. david: wow, with interest rates going up and that makes it worse. lucas tomlinson thank you very much. my next guest has a plan to fix budget problems. g.o.p. candidate vivek ramaswamy and the author of a book capitalist punishment , good to see you. i hope the campaign trail is treating you okay. and the work fair that biden hates now. and a five-year recap after 96 how it worked out in 2001. welfare cases came way down, poverty came way down as well,
to go out and fix the problem supposedly causing this eco-grief. and they need to quit wasting taxpayer dollars. there are some good folks, some patriotic hardworking americans that work for the federal government. i know this is a smaller subset, but this is not acceptable. we can t be funding this when we have budget problems and we have got species, endangered species list like hotel california. you go on and never go off. these people need to go out and get to work addressing the problems that are causing grief and try to change something instead of whining about it. todd: what is your plan to get this organization to focus on why it is they were in the first place? well, congress duty is to have oversight. the reason i sent the letter is to get information. we will have rigorous oversight of fish and wildlife and all of the department of the interior in this kind of woke action is rampant throughout the
see no leadership on that front, and indeed they see what they view as failure to get obstacles out of the way. we are seeing the drama where the president is going to sit down with speaker mccarthy and talk about the debt ceiling, the fault on the debt is terrible, no question about it, it s the job of the president to avoid things like that visible and on the horizon, and the white house releases the sophomoreic memo, and third year in a row they have not done the job. the president is supposed to lead on the budget, he doesn t. budget problems, medicare, social security, what are the plans, none. so absence of seriousness. what s ironic about this, biden, the news releases are saying when biden gives his state of the union, sandra, he s