the latest. good evening. reporter: good evening a big hurdle cleared with the debt ceiling the house overwhelmingly approvingdeal brokered by president biden and house speaker mccarthy. here is the breakdown 149 gop ea at 155 democratic yea. more democrat support of the deal than the majority even though the gop runs the house. you said democrats got nothing so how do you define nothing? i think they voted for it because they wanted to take up for their president. reporter: the right wing of the gop is seething at mccarthy. representative ken buck wants the house to consider a vote of no confidence against the speaker. we were told the first night there is nothing in this for democrats.and more democrats voted for this bill than republicans. democrats have joined with mccarthy to pass bills so there is a big reassessment of the coalition for bauer out of the house. screaming the bill travels across the rotunda to the senate tomorrow where conservatives could try to
First of all, imagine for a moment someone tells you that theyre giving you a gift worth 237 million. I mean, thats enough money to make you want to shout. Write this, start making plans, telling everybody you know but then you find out that the actual value of that gift could be zero well, thats what happened this week on an historically black college, black University Campus in tallahassee, florida this would have been the largest donation ever to an hbcu and we know how these schools have been so underfunded, right . This one has had some very public financial challenges, especially but to understand this massive collapse, lets go back one week, to may 4 thats the de of florida a m universitys Commencement Gregory Two Rami is introduced as the ceo of better sun farms corporation. He gave a speech that ended with the Surprise Announcement along with a huge ceremonial check hundred and 37 million and bad away the money is in the bank all the cheering there. Did you hear the background
Working americans and explode our national debt. This bill was written without the benefit of any hearings, any testimony from expert witnesses or any input from democrats. The bill was written to give massive, permanent tax breaks to the rich and to corporate interests, many of which ship u. S. Jobs overseas. It does give a handful of temporary tax cuts to some middle class taxpayers but actually raises taxes on millions of middle and working class families. An overwhelming majority of these tax breaks go to the top 1 of the richest americans. The republicans take away important tax provisions that so many middle class families rely on to make ends meet. And its not just middle class families that will be hurt by the repeal of these provisions. Seniors, disabled americans and veterans all count on various tax provisions that are now on the chopping block, effectively raising their taxes. As a vietnam veteran and supporter of our veterans, i find any legislation that would hurt our cou
Claims at a fiveweek high bon employee bonuses of 1,000 at some places. Now on to the next total in washington the shutdown as the deadline approaches well go live to d. C. For the state of play. And the apple conspiracy theorists were right the company does slow down your old iphones and consumers are upset. Details on that, coming up first up, though, as the tax reform bill awaits the president presiden president s signature, Many Companies announcing bonuses, pay hikes and Capital Spending sn initiatives. At t will invest an additional 1 billion in the United States. Our own parent, comcast, says it will give 1,000 bonuses to more than 100,000 workers and spend more than 50 billion over the next five years in infrastructure boeing, 300 million in workforce training and facility enhancements for its employees both wells fargo and fifth third raising their minimum wages to 15. Fifth third also handing out bonuses to 15,000 workers. Kudlow a few moments ago on twitter said hes never se
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