case over whether president biden had the right to forgive $400 billion in student loans that people hadn t paid back across the country. that put the burden on the backs of many people who had paid their own loans or who didn t go to college by choice. does the president have the power to move that money around from one group of people to another group of people? listen closely to this exchange. the first voice that you ll hear in the supreme court is white house attorney. then you ll hear her cut off from a question by justice gorsuch. listen. there s always the cost of the government of offering that benefit not just the cost of government. i m sorry to interrupt. i think they argue what it is missing is cost to other persons in terms of fairness. people that paid their loans, people that don t have plan their lives around not seeking loans and people who are not eligible for loans in the first place. a half a trillion dollars is being diverted to one group of pers
mexican cartels are responsible for the surge of deadly fentanyl. the opioid is killing americans by the tens of thousands and it is getting worse by the year. bill: as you can see on the map the gangs have a tight grip on the entire country and the mexican government is unable or unwilling to fight back. dana: a growing number of lawmakers wanting the cartels marked as terrorists opening to military strikes in mexico. here is one of them. senator joe manchin. this is a war. it has become a war. look at the people we lost. we haven t lost this many people in our wars. bill: we action from the former a.g. first news and reporting from the hill with aishah hosni there today. good morning. good morning to you both in new york. look, in just about an hour, members of the house intelligence committee will get to sit down and grill the nation s top intelligence chiefs and they will get to ask them directly about what they are doing with the cartels at the u.s./mexico bord
palestine, ohio. we re watching all that again today. dana: meantime president biden is heading to pennsylvania today going to roll out his election year budget plan pushing to connect with voters in what will be a must-win state for either of the candidates. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. president biden expected to lay the ground work for a possible second term using his budget proposal as part of a political push to launch attacks against republicans. you have heard a lot of them already actually. meanwhile his democratic coalition is showing signs of strain thanks to recent moves by his administration on immigration, also the d.c. crime bill. all this as the president sets his sights on new government spending and raises taxes on the wealthy. he is doing it by raising a massive amount of taxes. now, you either believe there are two types of economists now on capitol hill. there are people wh
failure of silicon valley bank, there s still no explanation, zero for the grieving families of the victims of the covenant school massacre. six innocent lives were claimed that day including three 9-year-old students and three adult staff members. and while tennessee lawmakers have been calling for more details on the shooter s motivations, those calls have mostly fallen on deaf ears. among those pressing for answers, governor bill lee yesterday tweeted this. the covenant shooting was a tragedy beyond comprehension and tennesseans need clarity. he s exactly right. now, nashville police say they re moving to release the shooter s long awaited manifesto but they haven t shared a timeline for the release and it s unclear if the authorities will censor or redact any of those details. along with that manifesto, nashville police found many other items in their investigation. among them are this photos marked psych and medical, 20 journals, seven cell phones, five laptops, five y
higher taxes proposed for big companies and high earners. that revenue would fund a big federal pay raise and the largest peacetime military budget ever. republicans quick to say the proposal is a progressive pipe dream that is going nowhere fast. the president claims his plan will actually cut $3 trillion from the federal deficit. critics are saying that expiring covid-19 payments are probably to thank for that. mcconnell called it a wish list. thank goodness the house is republican. more reaction from senate republicans here. i think that what we ll be seeing is their aspirational budget if they were king of the world and could wave a magic wand, this is what they would want. they think you should give all your money and freedom in washington because they, the biden administration, knows better who you to spend it than you do. i don t agree with that. i don t suspect that we ll pay any attention to president biden s budget. julie: charles payne is here to break it dow