improve election security. and much to the dismay of conservatives, the bill also continues federal funding of planned parenthood. and if you missed it, g.o.p. senator rand paul was on a twitter tear, tweeting things like the shear size of the bill and that it funds, quote: 12 million for scholarships for lebanon. 12 million for middle east partnership initiative scholarship programs. 12 million in military funding for vietnam. 3.5 million for nutrition assistance to louis. to laos and 15 million in developmental assistance to china and 15 million to women in afghanistan. that is your budget roundup for this friday. tucker? tucker: thanks, trace. president trump criticized today s budget bill even as he signed it the bill is suboccipital tim mall as he suggested. certainly expensive. the legislation will trigger a trillion-dollar deficit or come very close to that. that s great news here in d.c. by the way. the range recovery
improve election security. and much to the dismay of conservatives, the bill also continues federal funding of planned parenthood. and if you missed it, g.o.p. senator rand paul was on a twitter tear, tweeting things like the shear size of the bill and that it funds, quote: 12 million for scholarships for lebanon. 12 million for middle east partnership initiative scholarship programs. 12 million in military funding for vietnam. 3.5 million for nutrition assistance to louis. to laos and 15 million in developmental assistance to china and 15 million to women in afghanistan. that is your budget roundup for this friday. tucker? tucker: thanks, trace. president trump criticized today s budget bill even as he signed it the bill is suboccipital tim mall as he suggested. certainly expensive. the legislation will trigger a trillion-dollar deficit or come very close to that. that s great news here in d.c. by the way.
christmas. so that tax and the thing it funds were killed off last week. that had generated $500 million a year. it was a main source of revenue for the oil spill liability trust fund. proceeds of that tax were specifically put aside for a rainy day when history repeats itself and there s another exxon valdez or another deepwater horizon. break glass in the case of an emergency. slush fund for oil spill disasters. and the republicans just killed it. and at the same time the trump administration has also just hacksawed the safety regulations that are supposed to prevent oil spills in the first place, saying they want to overhaul how federal officials monitor safety procedures on offshore drilling operations. the trump administration has just moved to kibosh two safety rules that were put in place, specifically after the deepwater horizon spill in 2010. they want to get rid of those rules on the grounds that they are overly burdensome to the industry.
if they have another, you know, exxon valdez on steroids on our hands. that s exactly the doomsday scenario u.s. government officials had in mind creating the oil spill liability trust fund, an emergency slush fund. it was created in the wake of the exxon valdez as an immediate source of federal funding to respond to oil spills in a timely manner. this oil spill liability trust fund is financed by a 9-cent per barrel tax on companies that sell oil in the united states. all right. i should say it was primarily financed that way. that tax was just killed. that tax was allowed to expire as part of the tax bill republicans passed before christmas. so that tax and that thing it funds were killed off last week. that had generated $500 million a year, it was a main source of revenue for the oil spill liability trust fund. proceeds of that tax put away so when history repeats itself and
budget in the nypd spent on that area. during my time as police commissioner, the threat remained so significant we increased the staffing from 1,000 to almost 1600 personnel employed full time to deal with the continuing threat stream of issues around terrorism. so it s a significant concern that it s even being proposed. since 9/11, new york city has been the target of 21 terror lots acourse cording to commissioner o neill. what are the main reasons that the federal government funds local police terror units, what does it do? particularly here in new york, there s no argument that we are the number one target in the united states, and certainly one of the top targets for terrorists in the world. it funds, the federal funds here help to supply equipment, they help to pay overtime, so much of what the public sees out there, and what they don t see, the awareness system, the cameras, license plate scanner, radiation