and american football star damar hamlin remains in a critical condition, after suffering a cardiac arrest during a primetime nfl game. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. the first day of the new us congress has been full of drama. after the swearing in of new members, the house of representatives is stuck at the very first hurdle. for the first time in 100 years, the house failed to elect a speaker in the first ballot. the house has now adjourned until wednesday, after three rounds of votes. the latest saw the republican kevin mccarthy fall 16 votes short of the 218 majority required his chances scuppered by members of his own party. nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is elected. here is the moment when the latest result was announced. the honourable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. cheering and applause. the honourable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the first sitting of the new us house of representatives has been full of drama. three attempts to elect republican kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house have failed. he hasn t been able to secure enough support from his own party a group of right wing republicans have refused to back him, and the california congressman has refused to drop out of the race. it s the first time in 1000 years that a speaker hasn t been elected in the opening round of voting. 0ur correspondent in washington, will grant, explains the significance of the stalemate. of this is not the way that kevin mccarthy or the republicans wanted the first day in congress is a majority to go. not by a long way. by the third round of voting, as many as 20 republican colleagues did not vote for him, denying him the chance of taking speaker of the house. why does any of this matter? first and foremost because of that role is particularly important in
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Is like an awkward date you wait for them to show up at the restaurant, after ten years you decide they are probably not coming. The obr has assumed at each of the last 16 fiscal events that productivity growth would return to its pre crisis trend of about 2 a year, but it has remained stubbornly flat. So today they revise down the outlook for productivity growth, business investment, and gdp growth across the forecast period. That line was more important than Everything Else in the speech combined. But a Second Striking feature of this budget concerns public spending and austerity. After the last six elections, weve had big tax rises to pay for extra public spending. Not this time. An historic shift. And yet, we still have spending cuts baked in to our plans, sizeable spending cuts. Heres the graph. Per capita spending on Government Services from 2015 to 2022. So is this really do able . Today the chancellor bunged some billions into the Public Sector to ease the pain in the next coup